In <mailman.302.1293387041.6505.python-l...@python.org> Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> writes:
>On 12/26/2010 10:53 AM, kj wrote: >> P.S. If you uncomment the commented-out line, and comment out the >> last line of the __init__ method (which installs self._delitem as >> self.__delitem__) then *all* the deletion attempts invoke the >> __delitem__ method, and are therefore blocked. FWIW. >Because subclasses of builtins only check the class __dict__ for special >method overrides, not the instance __dict__. How do you know this? Is this documented? Or is this a case of Monday-night quarterbacking? ~kj -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list