Re: Circular dependency hell.
Fred Drake <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Christian Theune <[email protected]> wrote: > zope.testing uses the attribute '__bases__' to store the information what > the base layers are. __*__ are supposedly Python internal attributes. > Specifically __bases__ is known to be used to store information which base > classes a class has. This sort of misdirection has, unfortunately, a long history in Zope 3 (and the various things that's become). Witness __name__. (There are others, but most aren't *actually* used by Python implementations.) Removing existing __*__ name ("underware") usage is probably untenable, but I hope we can avoid extending our foolishness. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at gmail.com> "Chaos is the score upon which reality is written." --Henry Miller _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )