[Python-Dev] PEP: Ordered Class Definition Namespace (original) (raw)

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Tue Jun 7 21:09:57 EDT 2016

On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 11:39:06AM -0700, Eric Snow wrote:

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote: > On 6/7/2016 1:51 PM, Eric Snow wrote: > >> Note: just to be clear, this PEP is not about changing > >> type._dict_ to OrderedDict. > > By 'type', do you mean the one and one objected named 'type or the class > being defined? To be really clear, will the following change? > >>>> class C: pass > >>>> type(C.dict) > <class 'mappingproxy'>

I mean the latter, "type" -> the class being defined.

Could you clarify that in the PEP please? Like Terry, I too found it unclear. I think there are a couple of places where you refer to type and it isn't clear whether you mean builtins.type or something else.

-- Steve

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