extending the built in dictionary type

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <BXz8sKATYwu6Ewg9 at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk>,
Robin Becker  <robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>perhaps I didn't make myself clear. I will use UserDict for a python
>version, but if I want to accelerate to C I find fundamental problems in
>getting useful access to the code of say dictobject; in particular
>there's no obvious way to extend/modify in a small way; eg have a dict
>with just one more method. I either have to just copy that code
>wholesale or do rather silly things like changing my object's type
>before and after the operation. 

Why not simply have your object contain a dict as one of its members and
delegate the base operations to the Python dict?
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