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| From | Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Chanelling Guido - dict subclasses |
| Date | 2014-01-14 22:48 -0500 |
| References | <52d5e408$0$29970$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.5492.1389757706.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On 1/14/2014 8:27 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > In the midst of that discussion, Guido van Rossum made a comment about > subclassing dicts: > > [quote] > From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> > Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:06:32 -0800 > Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 460 reboot > > Personally I wouldn't add any words suggesting or referring > to the option of creation another class for this purpose. You > wouldn't recommend subclassing dict for constraining the > types of keys or values, would you? > [end quote] > > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-January/131537.html > > This surprises me, I was slightly surprised too. I understand not wanting to add a subclass to stdlib, but I believe this was about adding words to the doc. Perhaps he did not want to over-emphasize one particular possible subclass by putting the words in the doc. -- Terry Jan Reedy
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Chanelling Guido - dict subclasses Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-01-15 01:27 +0000
Re: Chanelling Guido - dict subclasses Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-01-14 21:04 -0500
Re: Chanelling Guido - dict subclasses Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-01-14 22:48 -0500
Re: Chanelling Guido - dict subclasses F <f@hop2it.be> - 2014-01-15 07:00 +0000
Re: Chanelling Guido - dict subclasses Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-01-15 09:40 +0100
Re: Chanelling Guido - dict subclasses John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2014-01-15 08:51 -0800
Re: Chanelling Guido - dict subclasses Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-01-15 19:35 +0100
Re: Chanelling Guido - dict subclasses Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2014-01-15 22:30 -0800
Re: Chanelling Guido - dict subclasses Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-15 09:10 +0000
Re: Chanelling Guido - dict subclasses Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-01-15 05:03 -0600
Re: Chanelling Guido - dict subclasses Daniel da Silva <var.mail.daniel@gmail.com> - 2014-01-15 19:50 -0500
Re: Chanelling Guido - dict subclasses Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-01-16 17:17 +1300
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