On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 12:55 PM, mk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So my updated question is where does this lstr() instance keep the original
> value ('abcdef')? It obviously has smth to do with inheriting after str
> class, but I don't get the details of the mechanism.Through the str.__new__ method: http://docs.python.org/ref/customization.html Calling a constructor: foo = Foo(1, 2, 3) Is roughly equivalent to: foo = Foo.__new__(Foo, 1, 2, 3) Foo.__init__(foo, 1, 2, 3) As a side note, you may already know this, but it's not necessary to create a property setter that raises an error to make a property read-only; you can simply not define a setter method. -Miles -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
