Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Finney wrote: > > > class Human_Sex(str): > > def __repr__(self): > > repr_str = "%s(name=%s)" % ( > > self.__class__.__name__, > > str.__repr__(self) > > ) > > return repr_str > > I'm a bit surprised that `Human_Sex` is subclassing `str`.
So far, the "attribute" classes in this application are just state-encapsulations, so they might as well subclass 'object'. I subclassed 'str' to get the constructor and __str__ cheaply (in coding time). The rest of the baggage of 'str' is rather unnecessary, I suppose. -- \ "Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." -- Voltaire | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list