"Make lists subclassable"?

[Skip Montanaro]

    Norman> It appears from this check in comment that one will be able to
    Norman> subclass a Python list in some future revision.

    Norman> Is this assumption true?

Yup.

    Norman> If so is is it slated for version 2.2 and how will it work?

I believe 2.2 is the target.  Take a look here for details:

    http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0252.html
    http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0253.html

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