Did class inheritance from "dict" work in early Python?

[John Nagle]

Did class inheritance from "dict" work in early Python? Or did
that only start working when "new objects" came in?

John Nagle

 

[Stephen Hansen]

Did class inheritance from "dict" work in early Python? Or did
that only start working when "new objects" came in?

The latter, that's why UserDict (and UserList) was added.

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[Steven D'Aprano]

Did class inheritance from "dict" work in early Python? Or did that
only start working when "new objects" came in?

Only with the introduction of new-style classes and "object" in version
2.2.

http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.2.3/descrintro/#subclassing


Before that the technique of choice was to use automatic delegation, e.g.
see the UserDict module.