When creating an abstract class, subclassing tuple causes check for instantiation of an abstract class to be bypassed. See the associated stackoverflow question -- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35267954/mix-in-of-abstract-class-and-namedtuple

    from abc import abstractmethod, ABCMeta

    class AbstactClass(tuple, metaclass=ABCMeta):

        @abstractmethod
        def some_method(self):
            pass

    # following should throw a TypeError, but doesn't
    AbstactClass()

3.2 to 3.4 only get security fixes

Same as reported on issue #5996. Apparently this happens not only with tuple but with any builtin type.

There is a patch on that issue but there hasn't been any activity since 2011.

messages: + msg260193

components: + Library (Lib)
stage: test needed