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Re:Why Is Python Growing So Quickly? by andybak on Saturday September 16, 2017 @06:46AM (#15264011)
You might consider this too much of an edge case but what if I want to pass something that quacks like an EventLoop to Process init ?
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Re:Why Is Python Growing So Quickly? by crdoconnor on Saturday September 16, 2017 @10:21AM (#15264756)
Unless it's a subclass (which would pass), I don't imagine that would be at all likely.

Never been much of a fan of duck typing. It only really makes sense when you have objects that approximate built in types.

Take a random object with a .run() method, for example, and you don't have a fucking clue what it might be doing so there's no point interpreting that as a quack.

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