On Aug 30, 8:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have read that you can derive from the base classes such as str, > list, dict. > > I guess this would look like: > > def MyString(str): > def MyList(list): > def MyDict(dict):
You mean class MyString(str): ... > How do you access the data that is contained in the super class? The same way that you access plain strings, lists or dicts: use the methods of the super class. HTH PS: it is not so often a good idea to derive a class from these types. -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list