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authorEric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com>2016-09-09 18:22:14 (GMT)
committerEric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com>2016-09-09 18:22:14 (GMT)
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@@ -1801,9 +1801,9 @@ included in the class definition (if any) and the resulting object is bound
in the local namespace as the defined class.
When a new class is created by ``type.__new__``, the object provided as the
-namespace parameter is copied to a standard Python dictionary and the original
-object is discarded. The new copy becomes the :attr:`~object.__dict__` attribute
-of the class object.
+namespace parameter is copied to a new ordered mapping and the original
+object is discarded. The new copy is wrapped in a read-only proxy, which
+becomes the :attr:`~object.__dict__` attribute of the class object.
.. seealso::