I'm interested in subclassing the built-in int type in Python (I'm using v. 2.5), but having some trouble getting the initialization working. Here's some example code, which should be fairly obvious. class TestClass(int): def __init__(self): int.__init__(self, 5) However, when I try to use this I get: >>> a = TestClass() >>> a 0 where I'd expect the result to be 5. What am I doing wrong? Google, so far, hasn't been very helpful, but I'm not really sure what I should be searching for Continue reading...
