Automatic Type Conversion to String
Bruce Eckel
lists.eckel at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 09:58:43 EST 2012
> Could it be that you missed the fact that strings are immutable? That
> means that you can't change the content of the object once it is
> initialized. In particular, it means that you e.g. have to override
> __new__ instead of __init__, because the content is already fixed when
> the latter is called.
>
> Uli
Yes, that's what I missed, and it explains why I found examples of str
inheritance using __new__. I think this might end up being a puzzle I
poke at for awhile.
Also, I discovered that the attempt to create a "Path" class goes back
to 2006, where it created a lot of discussion and was finally shelved:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0355/
A significant part of the problem seems to be that there was no
inheritance from str at the time, so maybe a lot of the issues they
ran into could be solved now.
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