Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Sorry, as with all similar subclasses, class op subclass = class unless one explicitly subclasses the answer or overrides the __op__ method to do that for you.
class octint(int): 'int that displays as octal' def __str__(self): return oct(self) __repr__ = __str__ mode = octint(0o640) print(mode + 4, octint(mode+4)) def __add__(self, other): return octint(int.__add__(self, other)) # octint(self+other) is infinite recursion octint.__add__ = __add__ print(mode+4) >>> 420 0o644 0o644 ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16801> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com