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dict subclassing in templates and terminologies

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
15/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

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The issue names no files, tests, or entry points and proposes no concrete change. Start by locating the template and terminology implementations, then determine whether dict subclassing needs a scoped follow-up; done requires a maintainer-approved decision and a concrete task.

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Description

Subclassing the dict built-in is generally discouraged (and collections.UserDict exists for this purpose) but I think the reasons for that don't affect us here right now. I believe it's only an issue when overriding the magic methods, which we're not. Might want to keep in mind in case we do anything more fancy with the class.

Originally posted by @achilleas-k in https://github.com/G-Node/python-odml/diffs

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