> Inheriting from "int" is not too helpful, because you can't assign > to the value of the base class. "self=1" won't do what you want.
It's useful if you remember that you can set the default value by overwriting __new__. >>> class int1(int): ... def __new__(cls, value=1): ... return super(int1, cls).__new__(cls, value) ... >>> int1() 1 >>> int1(1) 1 >>> int1(2) 2 >>> int1(0) 0 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
