converting base class instance to derived class instance

[Michele Simionato]

François Pinard <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote in message news:<mailman.1372.1076344361.12720.python-list at python.org>...
> By the way, what is a "heap type"?

More or less, an user defined type, as opposed to a builtin type:

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