[Python-ideas] issubclass(collections.OrderedDict, collections.Sequence)

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On Thu, Oct 9, 2014, at 07:46, Ed Kellett wrote:
> On 9 October 2014 07:04, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> > No, I didn't miss that at all.  I just have a different point that I
> > think is far more important.  I think you, random, and Ram are wasting
> > a lot of your own time defending this idea in the terms you are using,
> > and I'm trying to explain why I believe that.  I'll happily stop,
> > right here, since I've been entirely unsuccessful so far.
> 
> I don't actually believe I have defended this idea once. I don't care
> whether it is added to the stdlib - I just didn't want it to get shut
> down because of a miscommunication, rather than because people didn't
> think its uses were useful enough.

Same here, personally I think his use case would be better served by two
functions, or by a flag that's passed in by the caller. There's no
particular reason to _not_ want to do the unordered subset comparison on
a list.