Re: [Python-Dev] anomaly

2015-05-12 Thread Florian Bruhin
* 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 =

Re: [Python-Dev] anomaly

2015-05-12 Thread Terry Reedy
On 5/11/2015 3:40 AM, Florian Bruhin wrote: [snip] This trollish thread was cross-posted to python-list, where it was semi-ok, at least in the beginning, and pydev, where it is not. It has continued on python-list with pydev removed. Please do not continue it here (on pydev). -- Terry Jan

Re: [Python-Dev] anomaly

2015-05-11 Thread Mark Rosenblitt-Janssen
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!!! Mark ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] anomaly

2015-05-11 Thread Paul Moore
On 10 May 2015 at 17:34, Mark Rosenblitt-Janssen dreamingforw...@gmail.com wrote: Here's something that might be wrong in Python (tried on v2.7): class int(str): pass int(3) '3' It's not wrong as such. It is allowed to define your own class that subclasses a builtin class, and it's allowed