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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:38:58 -0700
Subject: Re: What the Pythons docs means by "container" ?
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On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:37 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> See https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0246/
>
> There Guido says "something much better is about to happen"
>
> Best as I know its not happened yet...

Well, since that PEP was rejected we now have ABCs. Although PEP 3119
wasn't written until a couple of years later, so who knows if that's
what he had in mind.