Hunter Peress writes:
I see the arguments,but the following code works fine. so what exactly is the issue?
The code doesn't work when the repr of the subclass instance should be wrapped:
#!/usr/bin/python import sys,commands,os,re,string from pprint import pprint as ppr
class t(list): pass
inst = t() inst.append(1) inst.append({2:3}) inst.append([4,5,6,[7,8]])
Change the last line to: for i in range(10): inst.append(range(10)) and what you get is: [1, {2: 3}, [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]] (wrapped by pasting into my mail client), but what's expected is: [1, {2: 3}, [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]] -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> PythonLabs at Zope Corporation