From 96bc3b4d741091d66e390705ae99df2f06fde606 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Michael W. Hudson" Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:48:23 +0000 Subject: This is not part of my patch [ 635933 ] make some type attrs writable but should have been! News about the above. --- Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex | 7 +++++++ Misc/NEWS | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex index b1e9713..c3b8e8f 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex @@ -896,6 +896,13 @@ In 2.3, you get this: \end{verbatim} +\item One of the noted incompatibilities between old- and new-style + classes has been removed: you can now assign to the + \member{__name__} and \member{__bases__} attributes of new-style + classes. There are some restrictions on what can be assigned to + \member{__bases__} along the lines of those relating to assigning to + an instance's \member{__class__} attribute. + \end{itemize} diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 4b38794..a5190c7 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ What's New in Python 2.3 alpha 1? Type/class unification and new-style classes -------------------------------------------- +- One can now assign to __bases__ and __name__ of new-style classes. + - dict() now accepts keyword arguments so that dict(one=1, two=2) is the equivalent of {"one": 1, "two": 2}. Accordingly, the existing (but undocumented) 'items' keyword argument has -- cgit v0.12