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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 2001-12-05 19:46:42 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 2001-12-05 19:46:42 (GMT) |
| commit | d331cb550221cbf0a5863968ed272fb2afc90202 (patch) | |
| tree | 55cd126e9bd86860463f2dd440f9dff890e25db5 /Misc/NEWS | |
| parent | 698da02d3b0ce3364dc4e9bd61a47d73ca4e74a7 (diff) | |
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At the PythonLabs meeting someone mentioned it would make Jim really
happy if one could delete the __dict__ attribute of an instance. I
love to make Jim happy, so here goes...
- New-style objects now support deleting their __dict__. This is for
all intents and purposes equivalent to assigning a brand new empty
dictionary, but saves space if the object is not used further.
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@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes dict.__hash__ and list.__hash__ now raises the same TypeError (previously, these were the same as object.__hash__). +- New-style objects now support deleting their __dict__. This is for + all intents and purposes equivalent to assigning a brand new empty + dictionary, but saves space if the object is not used further. + Core and builtins Extension modules |