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Author	rhettinger
Recipients	benjamin.peterson, georg.brandl, gvanrossum, jmillikin, pitrou, rhettinger
Date	2011-01-06.08:46:55
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> Do you also advocate deprecating PySequence_Check()? Perhaps just document PyMapping_Check() as being less informative than before (now it has false positives for sequences). > As for the "clean C version of the ABCs", > I'm afraid we could wait quite a bit That may be true. I hope not. The ABCs were meant to solve exactly this problem. At this point, I would rather ignore the problem for 3.2 than to implement a less clean alternative.

> Do you also advocate deprecating PySequence_Check()? 

Perhaps just document PyMapping_Check() as being less informative than before (now it has false positives for sequences).

> As for the "clean C version of the ABCs", 
> I'm afraid we could wait quite a bit

That may be true.  I hope not.  The ABCs were meant to solve exactly this problem.  At this point, I would rather ignore the problem for 3.2 than to implement a less clean alternative.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-01-06 08:47:00	rhettinger	set	recipients: + rhettinger, gvanrossum, georg.brandl, pitrou, benjamin.peterson, jmillikin
2011-01-06 08:47:00	rhettinger	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
2011-01-06 08:46:55	rhettinger	link	issue5945 messages
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