Python23: cannot inherit from bool?
FrankS
franks at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Jan 21 16:05:11 EST 2003
The purpose was not to change the fundamental behavior of bool, but to add some
additional methods to create a XML-Schema Boolean-like datatype.
The idea is to map the XSD datatypes as much as possible to python primitive
datatypes, and to inherit and add methods that would help with writing/parsing
schemas, xml-serialized data elements, enforce facet constraints and such.
So my (naive) attempt was to define something like:
class XsdBoolean(bool, XsdAnySimpleType):
...
The work-around is to derive XsdBoolean from int and achieve essentially the
same, but it would have been more elegant to derive from bool...
Maybe the restriction should not be on the inheriting itself, but on the
redefinition of __init__ and/or __new__ , such that you could add additional
methods that wouldn't mess with the fundamental behavior (?).
Thanks, Frank.
James Kew wrote:
> FrankS wrote:
>
>>It seems that 2.3 doesn't allow you to inherit from bool:
>
>
> I'm not qualified to comment on why it's not allowed, but out of interest:
> why might you want to inherit from bool?
>
> --
> James Kew
> james.kew at btinternet.com
>
>
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