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| author | Tal Einat <taleinat+github@gmail.com> | 2018-09-10 13:11:04 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-09-10 13:11:04 (GMT) |
| commit | 54752533b2ed1c898ffe5ec2e795c6910ee46a39 (patch) | |
| tree | 02d254c2e1ed9865fe2c05086ba7dcb11d2b750d /Doc/whatsnew | |
| parent | 1f36bf6077d93cb43fd84bea4a8a625fa772d1fa (diff) | |
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bpo-30977: rework code changes according to post-merge code review (GH-9106)
also mention the change and its consequences in What's New
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst index 2de7a50..a9b689d 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst @@ -131,6 +131,10 @@ Optimizations objects (e.g. tuple, list, dict) size is reduced 4 or 8 bytes. (Contributed by Inada Naoki in :issue:`33597`) +* :class:`uuid.UUID` now uses ``__slots__`` to reduce its memory footprint. + Note that this means that instances can no longer be weak-referenced and + that arbitrary attributes can no longer be added to them. + Build and C API Changes ======================= @@ -275,6 +279,9 @@ Changes in the Python API * The function :func:`math.factorial` no longer accepts arguments that are not int-like. (Contributed by Pablo Galindo in :issue:`33083`.) +* :class:`uuid.UUID` now uses ``__slots__``, therefore instances can no longer + be weak-referenced and attributes can no longer be added. + CPython bytecode changes ------------------------ |