Tuple Question

[Steven Bethard]

VanL wrote:
> Why is this?
> 
>  >>> class MyTuple(tuple):
> ...     def __getitem__(self, name):
> ...         return tuple.__getitem__(self, name)
> ...
>  >>> data = (1,2,3,4,5)
>  >>> t = MyTuple(data)
>  >>> t[0]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "<stdin>", line 3, in __getitem__
> TypeError: descriptor '__getitem__' requires a 'tuple' object but 
> received a 'int'

What Python are you using?  On Python 2.4:

 >>> class MyTuple(tuple):
...     def __getitem__(self, name):
...         return tuple.__getitem__(self, name)
...
 >>> data = (1,2,3,4,5)
 >>> t = MyTuple(data)
 >>> t[0]
1

Steve