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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject: Re: Basic misunderstanding on object creation
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