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[Python-Dev] __subclasses__() return order

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Sun May 26 06:19:08 CEST 2013 
On 2013-05-25 09:18, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> In http://bugs.python.org/issue17936, I proposed making tp_subclasses
> (the internal container implementing object.__subclasses__) a dict.
> This would make the return order of __subclasses__ completely
> undefined, while it is right now slightly predictable. I have never seen
> __subclasses__ actually used in production code, so I'm wondering
> whether someone might be affected by such a change.

I do use a package that does use __subclasses__ in production code, but the 
order is unimportant.

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Robert Kern

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