It works on CPython 2.6 at least. You should only have to override __new__ if you wanted to support different arguments than str/unicode.__new__ supports.
> -----Original Message----- > From: users-boun...@lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users- > boun...@lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Michael Foord > Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 6:02 PM > To: Discussion of IronPython > Subject: Re: [IronPython] CP Issue #21659: Subclassing unicode > > Jeff Hardy wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there any quick workaround for #21569? It's causing about a third > > of the Genshi errors I'm hitting. Trying to override __init__ in the > > subclass gives the same error. > > > > class Foo(unicode): > > def __init__(self, val): > > pass > > > > f = Foo(1) > > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "foo.py", line 5, in __main__ > > TypeError: expected str, got int > > > > Wouldn't that particular example bomb out on CPython as well - you need > to override __new__ on the immutable builtins surely? > > Michael > > Thanks, > > Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > Users@lists.ironpython.com > > http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > > > > > -- > http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/ > http://www.voidspace.org.uk/blog > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.ironpython.com > http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
