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Re: Basic misunderstanding on object creation

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Date Wed, 13 May 2015 15:17:53 -0400
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On 5/13/2015 2:42 PM, andrew cooke wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 13:37:23 UTC-3, Terry Reedy  wrote:
>> On 5/13/2015 9:25 AM, andrew cooke wrote:
>>
>>> The following code worked on Python 3.2, but no longer works in 3.4.
>>
>> Bugfixes break code that depends on buggy behavior. See
>> https://bugs.python.org/issue1683368
>> Your code also fails in 2.7.9 if you inherit Foo from object.
>> The exact error messages changed for 3.4 in
>> https://bugs.python.org/issue7963
>>
>>   > Did something change,
>>
>> Obviously yes.
>
> thanks, but why does someone on this group always have to be a dick and make some smart-assed comment like this?

To remind people to ask the question they want answered.

>>   > or have I always been doing something dumb?
>>
>> You were depending on behavior of object that Guido decided was buggy.
>>
>> I found the tracker issue by looking for 'object' in the Core and
>> Builtins sections of the changelog one can access from What's New, first
>> paragraph (using Highlight All in Firefox).

I spent 15 minutes digging around to find the answer that no one else 
gave you, and all your total response is to ignore that, not thank me, 
and call me a dick?  Whose is the dick here?

Being punished for answering questions is one reason I have mostly 
stopped.  I will try to remember not to waste time responding to you again.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Basic misunderstanding on object creation andrew cooke <andrew@acooke.org> - 2015-05-13 06:25 -0700
  Re: Basic misunderstanding on object creation Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de> - 2015-05-13 16:24 +0200
    Re: Basic misunderstanding on object creation andrew cooke <andrew@acooke.org> - 2015-05-13 07:42 -0700
      Re: Basic misunderstanding on object creation andrew cooke <andrew@acooke.org> - 2015-05-13 07:45 -0700
        Re: Basic misunderstanding on object creation Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-05-13 16:55 +0200
        Re: Basic misunderstanding on object creation Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-05-13 08:55 -0600
          Re: Basic misunderstanding on object creation andrew cooke <andrew@acooke.org> - 2015-05-13 08:52 -0700
      Re: Basic misunderstanding on object creation Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-05-13 08:54 -0600
  Re: Basic misunderstanding on object creation Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-05-13 12:36 -0400
    Re: Basic misunderstanding on object creation andrew cooke <andrew@acooke.org> - 2015-05-13 11:42 -0700
      Re: Basic misunderstanding on object creation Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-05-13 15:17 -0400
      Re: Basic misunderstanding on object creation Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-05-13 20:45 +0100
        Re: Basic misunderstanding on object creation Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2015-05-13 13:33 -0700
          Re: Basic misunderstanding on object creation Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-14 11:07 +1000
  Re: Basic misunderstanding on object creation Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-05-13 17:38 +0100
  Re: Basic misunderstanding on object creation Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-05-13 13:05 -0400
  Re: Basic misunderstanding on object creation Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-05-13 13:13 -0400
  Re: Basic misunderstanding on object creation Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-05-13 18:43 +0100

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