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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 17:10:49 -0800
From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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On 12/17/2013 03:51 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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> This leads to another question: we've now seen two examples where
> (presumably) the internal type field and __class__ differ. In the
> weakproxy case, type(obj) returns the internal type field. In the
> "regular" case, where you set obj.__class__ to a class, type(obj) returns
> the new (external) type. How the hell does it decide which one to return?

However it does it, it does it in C.  ;)

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~Ethan~