Georg Brandl added the comment: > What was the rationale for this decision? To me it looks like a hold- > over from the time when dicts were not subclassable.
I reckon it's faster this way, and you want basic datatypes like dict to be fast. __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2144> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com