I found some very odd behaviour in Python's very basic types

[rusi]

On Mar 10, 10:47 am, Sunjay Varma <varma.sun... at gmail.com> wrote:
> For some reason, sub-classing and overwriting a built-in type does not
> change the behavior of the literal.

Have you looked through this?
http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.2/descrintro/#subclassing

[Dunno exactly how current it is -- This was at 2.2, most people are
likely to be at 2.6 now or later. Maybe others can say...]