On 5/23/06, Andrew Dalke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Me [Andrew Dalke] said: > > The relevant code in stringobject uses PySequence_Fast_GET_ITEM(seq, > > i), > > which likely doesn't know about my derived __getitem__. > > Oops, I didn't know what the code was doing well enough. The > relevant problem is > > seq = PySequence_Fast(orig, ""); > > That calls __iter__ on my derived list object, which knows nothing > about my overridden __getitem__
Put another way, the problem is related to your initial claim: > I can derive from list and override __getitem__ You can do that, but you should not. It's almost a bug that you can. Jeremy > > So things are working as designed. > > Well, back to blundering about. Too much brennivin. ;) > > Andrew > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/jeremy%40alum.mit.edu > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
