Problems subclassing tuple instead of list

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 03:00:51 +0100, rumours say that holger krekel
<pyth at devel.trillke.net> might have written:

>Maybe it has to do with the immutability
>of tuples.

This is the problem, which I had when I created a subclass of tuple
allowing named access to its members (a la structtype).  By the time
your __init__ is called, the tuple has been created.  So for immutable
types, __new__ must be overloaded.
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