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Sun Jul 23 03:24:43 CEST 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-July/067641.html

Armin Rigo wrote:

> I'm not sure I understand what you propose to fix holes like
> constructors and __subclasses__: it seems that you want to remove them
> altogether (and e.g. make factory functions instead).  That would
> completely break all programs, right?  I mean, there is no way such
> changes would go into mainstream CPython.

How much code is actually out there that uses __subclasses__?
It seems like a fairly esoteric corner of the language to me.

In any case, I think this approach should certainly be tried,
and if it works out, considered for Py3k.

--
Greg

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