On Feb 28, 6:53 pm, monkeys paw <mon...@joemoney.net> wrote: > I'm trying to subclass urllib2 in order to mask the > version attribute. Here's what i'm using: > > import urllib2 > > class myURL(urllib2): > def __init__(self): > urllib2.__init__(self) > self.version = 'firefox' > > I get this> > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module> > TypeError: Error when calling the metaclass bases > module.__init__() takes at most 2 arguments (3 given) > > I don't see where i am supplying 3 arguments. What am i > missing?
urllib2 is a module, not a class, so you can't subclass it. You could subclass one of the classes inside urllib2, such as urllib2.BaseHandler. Whether you want to depends on what your want to achieve. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
