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[Python-Dev] Confirming status of new modules in 3.4

Nikolaus Rath Nikolaus at rath.org
Sat Mar 15 22:44:56 CET 2014 
Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:
> This downside of using subclassing as an API should be well known by now
> and widely warned against.

It wasn't known to me until now. Are these downsides described in some
more detail somewhere?


So far I have always thought that, as long as I avoid using private
attributes, subclassing was supported like any other use of the API.


Best,
Nikolaus

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