>> Is there a way to easily find out which methods of are mutating the >> collection? Other than going over the source and checking all (normal >> and inherited) methods? > How about > > set(dir(collections.UserList)) - set(dir(collections.Sequence)) Thanks. It narrows down the list of possible methods to be examined.
> I thought it was the other way round and UserList/UserDict were only kept > for backwards-compatibility, but don't find anything in the docs to support > this... Are you saying that for any new project, I should subclass from list and dict, instead of UserList and UserDict? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
