Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Interesting - in some of the other work I was doing regarding the PEP 8 compliant alternative threading API, I noticed that the threading module contains similar gems such as:
def Event(*args, **kwds): return _Event(*args, **kwds) Using a factory function to discourage subclassing is one thing, but why name the factory function as if it was a still a class? _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3589> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
