[Python-checkins] r77790 - in python/branches/release26-maint: Lib/UserDict.py Lib/abc.py Lib/test/test_abc.py Misc/NEWS

[Nick Coghlan]

benjamin.peterson wrote:
> Author: benjamin.peterson
> Date: Wed Jan 27 03:24:25 2010
> New Revision: 77790
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> Log:
> Merged revisions 77788-77789 via svnmerge from 
> svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk
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>   r77788 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-01-26 20:15:28 -0600 (Tue, 26 Jan 2010) | 1 line
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>   for UserDict to be compatible with abcs, it must subclass object

As MAL pointed out, going from old-style to new-style is a major change
to the semantics of UserDict. It really shouldn't be backported to 2.6.

Cheers,
Nick.

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