Sanyam Khurana <sanyam.khuran...@gmail.com> added the comment:
Hi, My perception with all the discussion and WIP patch is that we can ideally limit the no. of subclasses shown only for object, and not for any other class. >From that list, the only unhelpful ones with > 4 items, in my opinion, appear >to be `object`, since that just tells you every type that exists, and `tuple`, >because that lists every single namedtuple. > So it is USEFUL to know ALL subclasses of a given Exception class +1 > I agree with this - most of the value here comes from showing the full set of > exceptions. If we don't do that, we should probably point the user to calling > `cls.__subclasses__()` so they can inspect the full list I agree with this. I would propose to only limit to 4 classes for subclasses of `object` and for everything else displaying all the subclasses. We can optionally display the message to call `cls.__subclasses()` in the case when `help(object)` is called. How does it sound? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue8525> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
