[New-bugs-announce] [issue7036] Doc/reference/datamodel: Slots description needs update

[Sebastian Thiel]

New submission from Sebastian Thiel <byronimo at gmail.com>:

The section starting with:
"If a class defines a slot also defined in a base class, the instance
variable
  defined by the base class slot is inaccessible rendering the meaning
of the
  program undefined. [...]"

would need to be revisited as it claims that a check for this issue
might be added in future. As far as I can tell, it has been added in
Python 2.4 or earlier as I get a TypeError in that case.

The attached diff is my attempt to fix this issue.

Kind Regards, 
Sebastian

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assignee: georg.brandl
components: Documentation
files: docfix.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 93447
nosy: Byron, georg.brandl
severity: normal
status: open
title: Doc/reference/datamodel: Slots description needs update
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.4, Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.0, Python 3.1, Python 3.2
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file15020/docfix.diff

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