I create a class like this in Python-2.6
>>> class Y(str):
... def __init__(self, s):
... pass
...
>>> y = Y('giraffe')
>>> y
'giraffe'
>>>How does the base class (str) get initialized with the value passed to Y.__init__() ? Is this behavior specific to the str type, or do base classes not need to be explicitly initialized? Andrew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
