Re: [boost] Re: BPL: inheritance problem

From: David Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-03-16 20:34:40

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From: <l.dunn_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 7:35 PM
Subject: [boost] Re: BPL: inheritance problem

> Hi David,
>
> Perhaps the best way might be to modifify Python. Surely this is a
> problem with Zope too.
>

Surely. It was my impression that Python 2.0 was supposed to fix this
problem, but it looks like I just assumed that it did because they fixed the
way isinstance and issubclass work. I'm surprised that the approach wasn't
extended a bit further :-(

It would be a relatively easy thing to change in the Python source, though
I'm not sure what the impact would be. I'm not in the business of
maintaining Python, either. Posting a suggestion to comp.lang.python
wouldn't hurt, if you want to do it.

-Dave