A couple questions about classes and inheritance

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sun May 16 20:58:04 EDT 2010


On 5/16/2010 6:58 PM, Paul LaFollette wrote:

> Anyway, again can you point me to somewhere that I can learn more?  In
> particular, is there a list somewhere of the builtin types that are
> not subclassable?

I believe that in 3.1, the builtin classes with builtin names can be 
subclassed and and those without cannot. (If you find any exceptionss, 
please post ;-). The ones with names are exactly the ones you are 
expected to directly interact with in normal code.

Terry Jan Reedy




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