[Zope3-dev] test failure in checkClassInfo with Python 2.3

[Steve Alexander]

>>Hmmm...  is TestCase a new-style class in 2.3?  Or do classic classes no 
>>longer use the dictionary returned by the class suite as their __dict__ in 2.3?
> 
> The latter.

The former is true, and acting on it fixed the test.

>  The __dict__ attribute of a class returns a read-only
> proxy for the real dict.

That doesn't seem to be the case in Python 2.3b1.


Python 2.3b1 (#1, Jun  4 2003, 16:23:13)
[GCC 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> class Foo:
...   pass
...
 >>> type(Foo)
<type 'classobj'>
 >>> class Foo1(object):
...   pass
...
 >>> type(Foo1)
<type 'type'>
 >>> Foo.__dict__
{'__module__': '__main__', '__doc__': None}
 >>> type(_)
<type 'dict'>
 >>> _ is dict
True
 >>>

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Steve Alexander