Casey Hawthorne wrote:
> Cannot one subclass the builtin types?

Of course! But that won't change the method on instances of the original builtin
type.

> I have heard, that one should always use objects when programming and
> avoid the builtin types!

That's not particularly good advice for Python.

> Then one is prepared to change objects at will and not rely on any
> special properties of the builtin types!

If you really want to do that, go ahead. I won't stop you. I won't use your
code, either.

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