Subclassing Python's dict

[Xavier Ho]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Sergey Simonenko <gforgx at lavabit.com>wrote:

> I subclass builtin 'dict' in my application and experience some problems
> with it.
>

You should subclass collections.UserDict, and not the default dict class.
Refer to the collections module.

Also, the ABC MutableMapping might be of your interest.


> Another guy have reported me that he experiences similar problems with
> subclassing builtin 'list'.


Similarly, UserList is what you should subclass.

HTH,

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