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Author	guettli
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Date	2017-07-17.14:19:59
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AFAIK cls.__subclasses__() only returns the classes which the interpreter has already loaded. This means there can be more subclasses in modules where not imported by the current interpreter up to now. https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/stdtypes.html?highlight=subclasses#class.__subclasses__ I think it would be nice to add a hint to the docs that python imports are lazy. What do you think?

AFAIK cls.__subclasses__() only returns the classes which the interpreter has already loaded.

This means there can be more subclasses in modules where not imported by the current interpreter up to now.

https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/stdtypes.html?highlight=subclasses#class.__subclasses__

I think it would be nice to add a hint to the docs that python imports are lazy.

What do you think?

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