MRO summary description in tutorial still says depth-first
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Description
Documentation
Tutorial - Classes chapter - Multiple Inheritance section has a summary description of MRO which
still says depth first. That applied to classic Python2 (old) classes.
Linked PRs
- gh-125905
- gh-125906
- gh-139999
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Research direction
Open the Tutorial's Classes chapter and locate the Multiple Inheritance section's MRO summary. Check the linked PRs first because this issue is old and may already be addressed elsewhere. Done means the summary no longer describes modern Python MRO as depth-first.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100