Subclassing Python's dict

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Sergey Simonenko a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I subclass builtin 'dict' in my application and experience some problems 
> with it.
> 
> The whole issue is that I should redefine 'setdefault' and 'update' 
> methods after redefining '__setitem__' or/and '__delitem__',
> otherwise 'update' and 'setdefault' ignore redefined '__setitem__' and 
> use builtin dict's one so dict looks kinda like a black box.
> 
> Another guy have reported me that he experiences similar problems with 
> subclassing builtin 'list'.

I indeed notice this behaviour here (Python 2.6.2). I'm afraid it has to 
do with some optimization tricks (dict being the very fundamental data 
structure in Python, it has to be higly optimized).