> The discussion on SF doesn't really answer my question. What > Nick did is fascinating: he reused the type object implementation > to mimic a sequence ! That's cool, but looks like an awfully > tricky way of doing something straight forward such as sub-classing > the tuple type to extend it with an additional dictionary. > So the question remains: why did Nick *have* to implement this > as meta-type ? For one thing, you'll see from the discussion that extending the tuple type with an additional dict is non-trivial: You cannot define a C data type that does this. You'll also see that there was a version that did it, and that it was rejected precisely because of this problem. Regards, Martin
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