Message 125299 - Python tracker

Message125299

Author	pitrou
Recipients	benjamin.peterson, georg.brandl, gvanrossum, jmillikin, pitrou, rhettinger
Date	2011-01-04.10:31:21
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Message-id	<1294137083.13.0.410855543979.issue5945@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> Right, calling PyMapping_Check() was never particularly reliable, and > extension modules depending on it probably always had subtle bugs. > Perhaps it would be nice if we provided a C API to at least some of > the ABC package. In the meantime, would it be reasonable to add the moral equivalent of `hasattr(type(op), 'items')` to PyMapping_Check()?

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> Right, calling PyMapping_Check() was never particularly reliable, and
> extension modules depending on it probably always had subtle bugs. 

> Perhaps it would be nice if we provided a C API to at least some of
> the ABC package.

In the meantime, would it be reasonable to add the moral equivalent of `hasattr(type(op), 'items')` to PyMapping_Check()?

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-01-04 10:31:23	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, gvanrossum, georg.brandl, rhettinger, benjamin.peterson, jmillikin
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