pre-PEP generic objects

[Steven Bethard]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Steven Bethard wrote:
> 
>>Currently, if a Python programmer makes this design decision, they are
>>forced to declare a new class, and then build instances of this class.
> 
> FORCED to create a new class, and FORCED to create instances of
> their own class instead of your class?

I don't see any way to produce the same behavior without *someone* (the 
user or the stdlib) declaring a class.  If you see a way to do this 
without a class declared somewhere, please let me know how...

> without this, Python must surely be unusable.

I definitely agree.  Python without classes would be quite unpleasant to 
use.

>  no wonder nobody's ever managed to use it for anything.

Yeah, I don't think anyone's managed to use Python without classes for 
years, especially since things like int, str, etc. were converted to types.

Steve