[Python-Dev] a strange case

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com
Fri, 16 May 2003 14:16:09 -0500


    Jeremy> On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 14:44, Barry Warsaw wrote:
    >> No, it's not, and in 2.3 you get an error (albeit a TypeError with a
    >> rather unhelpful message).  I guess the "fix" hasn't been backported.

    Jeremy> I think we decided this wasn't a pure bugfix :-).  Some poor
    Jeremy> soul may have code that relies on being able to subclass a
    Jeremy> module.

How about at least deprecating that feature in 2.2.3 and warning about it so
that poor soul knows this won't be supported forever?

Skip