[Python-Dev] Concerns about method overriding and subclassing with dataclasses

[Chris Barker]

On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 7:27 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <
turnbull.stephen.fw at u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote:

>   Just use the simple rule that a new
> __repr__ is generated unless provided in the dataclass.
>

are we only talking about __repr__ here ???

I interpretted Guido's proposal as being about all methods -- we _may_ want
something special for __repr__, but I hope not.

But +1 for Guido's proposal, not only because it's easy to explain, but
because it more naturally follows the usual inheritance logic:

The decorator's entire point is to auto-generate boilerplate code for you.
Once it's done that it shouldn't, in the end, behave any differently than
if you hand wrote that code. If you hand wrote the methods that the
decorator creates for you, they would override any base class versions. So
that's what it should do.

And the fact that you can optionally tell it not to in some particular case
keeps full flexibility.

-CHB

> I grant that there may be many reasons why one would be deriving

> dataclasses from dataclasses


Will you get the "right" __repr__ now if you derive a datacalss from a
dataclass? That would be a nice feature.

-CHB

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