Guido van Rossum wrote:
There was talk about changing string (the base class) to something else since it was the same name as the module. Was there ever a decision made?
Oops, no. Let's call it basestring. Can you do that?
Will do.
But this is not what I would expect:
>>> import string >>> class newstr(string): pass ... # i would have expected this to raise a TypeError >>> x = newstr() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? TypeError: 'module' object is not callable
Perhaps this error should be handled when the class is constructed rather than when instantiating an object?
Can you submit a SF bug report for this? It has nothing to do with string per se -- the bug is that you can use any module as a base class. :-(
Will do. Neal