Type subclassing: bug or feature

[Gustavo Cordova]

> 
> * Gustavo Cordova <gcordova at hebmex.com> [2002-06-13 16:18 -0500]:
> > maybe all methods of builtin types should do:
> > 
> > 	return self.__class__(return_value)
> > 
> > when returning a new object (like str methods).
> 
> Looks like a waste of performance in about 99 % of the time. 
> Hopefully,
> this can be optimized at the C level.
> 
> Gerhard
> 

Well, it *was* supposed to be pseudo-code, I'm sure
that at the C level it can be done in a much more
efficient way, without having to resort to Python code.

:-P

:-)

-gustavo

pd: TGIF!!