[issue25410] Clean up and fix OrderedDict

Eric Snow report at bugs.python.org
Sat Oct 17 17:10:07 EDT 2015


Eric Snow added the comment:

> Backward compatibility related to __class__ assignment was already broken in C
> implementation. In 3.4 following code works:
[snip]
> In 3.5 it doesn't.

Depending on what feedback we get from python-dev, that may need to be
fixed.  I'd be inclined to not worry about it. :)

> No, this assignment is forbidden (due to #24912). You can't set __class_ for
> an instance of a subclass of non-heap type.

Ah, I see.  So the solution to that issue has *forced* a compatibility break.

> Could you please raise a discussion on Python-Dev? You will formulate the
> problem better.

I will.

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