[Python-Dev] Re: Int FutureWarnings and other 2.4 TODOs

[Greg Ewing]

Mike Thompson <mike.thompson at day8.com.au>:

> Of course, this obvious solution has a problem:  a programmer can't easily
> sub-class Int.

I can't see that subclassing int is a particularly useful thing to do,
even as matters stand today. As soon as you do any operation on your
int subclass, you get a result which is not an instance of your
subclass any more, which makes using it rather fragile.

Does anyone have a real-life use case for subclassing int?

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