Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: The outcome of discussion of this issue on python-dev was that the lookup methodology for the special methods needs to be better documented, especially for those cases where the instance *must* be bypassed in order to avoid metaclass confusion for special methods that apply to both types and instances (see issue 2517 for such a problem that currently afffects the lookup of __unicode__). However, we're not prepared to add a standard delegation mixin to the standard library at this stage (I may still add a cleaned up version of mine to the SVN sandbox as an executable reference source for the relevant section of the documentation though).
While I offered to write that new section of the docs during the python-dev discussion, I'm not sure when I'll be able to get to it (My Python time lately has mostly been spent investigating __hash__ fun and games). ---------- assignee: barry -> _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue643841> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
