On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:24:28 -0400 Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am reposting the same question again because it seems to have gone > unnoticed. Antoine Pitrou and I had a brief discussion on the > tracker, but did not reach an agreement on whether a more elaborate > code is needed to replace PyInstance_NewRaw than a simple > type->tp_alloc() call. > > I have reviewed the patch again and I am convinced that this issue > comes into play only when 3.x loads 2.x pickles that contain instances > of classic classes. (Specifically, this code is used to process INST > and OBJ pickle opcodes that are not produced by 3.x.) This means that > Antoine's concern that "tomorrow [object_new()] may entail additional > operations" is not valid - there is no tomorrow for 2.x. :-)
But there *is* a tomorrow in 3.x and that's what we are talking about. Your code is meant to emulate object_new() in 3.x. > This > also means that the type cannot inherit from anything other than > object and thus cannot have funny tp_flags or tp_alloc that does not > create a usable object. Why can't it inherit from something else than object? _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
