"Make lists subclassable"?

[Norman Shelley]

It appears from this check in comment that one will be able to subclass
a Python list in some future revision.

Is this assumption true?
If so is is it slated for version 2.2 and how will it work?  (class
NewList(list): ...   ?)

Norman Shelley

 http://cvs.sf.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/python/python/dist/src/Objects/listobject.c

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Make lists subclassable.  Add code that frees ob_item when empty.