Where does str class represent its data?

[attn.steven.kuo at gmail.com]

On Jul 11, 8:20 pm, "attn.steven.... at gmail.com"
<attn.steven.... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 11, 4:21 pm, ChrisEdge... at gmail.com wrote:
>
>
>
> > I'd like to implement a subclass of string that works like this:
>
> > >>>m = MyString('mail')
> > >>>m == 'fail'
> > True
> > >>>m == 'mail'
> > False
> > >>>m in ['fail', hail']
>
> > True
>
> > My best attempt for something like this is:
>
> > class MyString(str):
> >   def __init__(self, seq):
> >     if self == self.clean(seq): pass
> >     else: self = MyString(self.clean(seq))
>
> >   def clean(self, seq):
> >     seq = seq.replace("m", "f")
>
> > but this doesn't work.  Nothing gets changed.
>
> What about subclassing str and redefining __eq__:
>
> >>> class MyString(str):
>
> ...     def __eq__(self, other):
> ...         return not str.__eq__(self, other)
> ...>>> m = MyString('mail')
> >>> m == 'fail'
> True
> >>> m == 'mail'
> False
> >>> m in ['fail', 'hail']
>
> True

...

Um, nevermind -- I *completely* misunderstood the question...

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Regards,
Steven