Extending the dict class

[chosechu]

Duncan Booth wrote:
> > Is it possible to force dictionary creation in these case to use
> > my own dict class instead of the default one?
>
> No

Ouch. I was expecting something like that, thanks for confirming it.

If I may: this seems inconsistent to me. I have created an augmented
version of the class with no possibility to extend 2 of the 3 legal
constructors: {} and func(**d). While I agree changing base class
behaviour is a bad idea, since we have the possibility to re-assign
dict to another class we should be able to do it consistently, i.e.
re-assing the two special constructors too.

Just my 2c on the topic... I have found workarounds anyway.