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Author	scoder
Recipients	Arfrever, Trundle, benjamin.peterson, daniel.urban, docs@python, eric.araujo, eric.snow, meador.inge, ncoghlan, pitrou, rhettinger, scoder, skrah
Date	2013-10-25.05:57:11
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Message-id	<1382680631.72.0.241308159941.issue10977@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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-1 on any changes that make the specific C-API functions less specific. They are perfectly adequate for gaining speed in well defined situations. +0 on any changes that special case concrete types in abstract calls if they prove to be worth the hassle. +1 for making sure CPython does not accidentally exclude subclasses internally for anything that's provided by users. +1 on CPython being the wrong place to work around this for external code. If extensions use the wrong function, they must be fixed. At most, there might be a documentation issue hidden here. Also, we should be careful with adding yet another substantial set of C-API functions. It's not clear to me that they are really needed in practice.

-1 on any changes that make the specific C-API functions less specific. They are perfectly adequate for gaining speed in well defined situations.

+0 on any changes that special case concrete types in abstract calls if they prove to be worth the hassle.

+1 for making sure CPython does not accidentally exclude subclasses internally for anything that's provided by users.

+1 on CPython being the wrong place to work around this for external code. If extensions use the wrong function, *they* must be fixed. At most, there might be a documentation issue hidden here.

Also, we should be careful with adding yet another substantial set of C-API functions. It's not clear to me that they are really needed in practice.

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2013-10-25 05:57:11	scoder	set	recipients: + scoder, rhettinger, ncoghlan, pitrou, benjamin.peterson, eric.araujo, Arfrever, Trundle, skrah, meador.inge, daniel.urban, docs@python, eric.snow
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