* Mark Rosenblitt-Janssen <dreamingforw...@gmail.com> [2015-05-10 11:34:52 -0500]: > Here's something that might be wrong in Python (tried on v2.7): > > >>> class int(str): pass > > >>> int(3) > '3'
What's so odd about this? "class int" is an assignment to "int", i.e.
what you're doing here is basically:
int = str
int(3) # really str(3)
* Mark Rosenblitt-Janssen <dreamingforw...@gmail.com> [2015-05-10 19:14:18
-0500]:
> In case the example given at the start of the thread wasn't
> interesting enough, it also works in the other direction:
>
> >>> class str(int): pass
>
> >>> str('2')
> 2 #<----- an integer!!!
Same thing. You're shadowing the builtin.
Florian
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