Summary: strong/weak typing and pointers

[Steven Bethard]

<exarkun <at> divmod.com> writes:
>
> Python 2.3 (#3, Jan 26 2004, 21:50:33)
> [GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (release)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import intrinsics, become
> >>> class phpstr(str):
> ...     def __setitem__(self, index, value):
> ...             become.memwrite(id(self) + 20 + index, str(value)[0])
> ... 
> >>> oldstr = intrinsics.replace(str, phpstr)
> >>> foo = 'abc'
> >>> foo[0] = 65
> >>> foo
> '6bc'

Oooh!  So dirty! ;)

I've never used the intrinsics module (and Googled, but apparently didn't search
for the right thing), but does this do a global replace?  E.g. if my module
imports some module that calls intrinsics.replace(str, phpstr), are all the uses
of str in my module then replaced with phpstr's?

Steve