Overriding base class methods in the C API

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:18:59 -0200, Floris Bruynooghe  
<floris.bruynooghe at gmail.com> escribió:

> I've been trying to figure out how to override methods of a class in
> the C API.  For Python code you can just redefine the method in your
> subclass, but setting tp_methods on the type object does not seem to
> have any influcence.  Anyone know of a trick I am missing?

No tricks; you have to define the new type structure, probably including  
tp_methods if you redefine any... (Ensure you create an object of the new  
type, obviously)
See e.g. _collections.c how defaultdict inherits from dict.

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Gabriel Genellina