i'm having a hell of a time getting this to work. basically I want to
be able to instantiate an object using either a list, or a string, but
the class inherits from list.
if the class is instantiated with a string, then run a method over it
to tokenize it in a meaningful way.
so how come this doesn't work??? if I do this:
a=TMP( 'some string' )
it does nothing more than list('some string') and seems to be ignoring
the custom __new__ method.
def convertDataToList( data ): return [1,2,3]
class TMP(list):
def __new__( cls, data ):
if isinstance(data, basestring):
new = convertDataToList( data )
return list.__new__( cls, new )
if isinstance(data, list):
return list.__new__( cls, data )
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