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Author	ncoghlan
Recipients	Arfrever, Trundle, benjamin.peterson, daniel.urban, docs@python, eric.araujo, eric.snow, meador.inge, ncoghlan, pitrou, rhettinger, scoder, skrah
Date	2013-10-25.15:56:06
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Message-id	<CADiSq7c02dG84EZAJ=iXArZdH1Kf1=9ci7=-qLZ0FSiDLC5KBQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-reply-to	<1382680631.72.0.241308159941.issue10977@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

Content
The problem we're trying to solve is CPython silently breaking subclass invariants, which is what the concrete APIs currently do. At the moment, trying to swap out dicts with ordered dicts in various places will corrupt the ordered dict instead of calling the appropriate subclass methods or throwing a type error.

The problem we're trying to solve is CPython *silently* breaking subclass
invariants, which is what the concrete APIs currently do. At the moment,
trying to swap out dicts with ordered dicts in various places will corrupt
the ordered dict instead of calling the appropriate subclass methods or
throwing a type error.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2013-10-25 15:56:06	ncoghlan	set	recipients: + ncoghlan, rhettinger, pitrou, scoder, benjamin.peterson, eric.araujo, Arfrever, Trundle, skrah, meador.inge, daniel.urban, docs@python, eric.snow
2013-10-25 15:56:06	ncoghlan	link	issue10977 messages
2013-10-25 15:56:06	ncoghlan	create