Why can't I subclass off of "date" ?

2006-08-24 Thread davidfinance
Ok, maybe this is a stupid question, but why can't I make a subclass of datetime.date and override the __init__ method? --- from datetime import date class A(date): def __init__(self, a, b, c, d): print a, b, c, d date.__init__(self, 2006, 12, 11) d = A(1, 2, 3, 4) --- $ p

Re: Why can't I subclass off of "date" ?

2006-08-24 Thread davidfinance
Wow, you guys are fast. Thanks Georg and Fredrik!! Fredrik Lundh wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Ok, maybe this is a stupid question, but why can't I make a subclass of > > datetime.date and override the __init__ method? > > __init__ controls initialization of an already constructed objec