On 10/24/2010 7:51 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > which means, AFAICT, that re-binding ‘__class__’ is only allowed for > objects of a type defined in the Python run-time heap, not those defined > in C code (like the built-in-exception types).
Yeah, that's a given. Ruby would probably let you do that, but Python insists that you don't dick around with the built-in types. And roghtly so, IMHO. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon 2011 Atlanta March 9-17 http://us.pycon.org/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
