[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): > > Well, replace 'def' with 'class' and you're right.
> How do you access the data that is contained in the super class? > This way: >>> class MyList(list): ... def do_something(self): ... self.append(3) ... print self ... >>> l = MyList((1, 2)) >>> l [1, 2] >>> l.do_something() [1, 2, 3] That is: Whenever you want to refer to the value refer to self (that is, refer to the instance of your class). /W -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
