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[Gary Robinson]

I am trying to understand a couple of nuances of inheriting from the 
tuple type.

The following class definition works nicely:

class Test(tuple):
    def __init__(self, tup):
        self.x = 5
        self = tup        
a = Test((1,2))
print a, a.x

The result of that print is "(1, 2), 5". 

But the following version:

class Test(tuple):
    def __init__(self, tup):
        self = tup
        self.x = 5
a = Test((1,2))

blows up in Python 2.3, complaining that attribute x doesn't exist.

I'm not clear on why one works and not the other, or whether there's a 
better syntax for assigning an attribute to a tuple subclass in the 
__init__() method.

Anyone have any  thoughts??

Gary
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