One of the things that my issue with the Python re module not exposingits types has firmly mashed my nose into is thedifference between 'is-a-descendant-of' and 'is-a' in object-orientedlanguages. It's conventional to think of them as more or less the samething, even in a loose duck typed language like Python; it just seemsto make sense for all compiled regular expressions to descend from asingle base class, just as it theoretically makes sense for both

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Why did Kaede (Sakura) lose consciousness?

I concur that we don't have enough information. However, there seems tobe a striking pattern that Kaede drops out of the action just when hernose would otherwise be rubbed in the existence of Kampfers, and I doubtthat this is a coincidence.

I continue to think that Akane was not shooting seriously for whateverreason. Otherwise, she is an embarrassingly bad shot; has she hitanything meaningful?

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It's recently struck me that there is an important difference betweentypes (and classes) created in a Python module and types/classes thatcome from a C-level extension module.

Suppose that duck typing is not enough and soyou really want to make a class that inherits from an outside class(one in another module), yet overrides all of its behavior. This letsyou create objects that work the way you need them to but will pass isinstance() checks that are insisting on instances of the