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Bug overriding operators in new-style classes?

Hi all,

I found a surprising behavior regarding new-style classes operator lookup.
It seems that for operators, the instance methods are ignored. Observe:
class C: .... def foo(self):
.... print 'foo'
.... def __setitem__(self, k, v):
.... print 'C.__setitem__', k, v
.... c = C()
c.foo() foo c[1] = 1 C.__setitem__ 1 1 def my_foo(): .... print 'my_foo'
.... def my_setitem(k, v): .... print 'my_setitem', k, v
.... c.foo = my_foo
c.__setitem__ = my_setitem
c.foo() my_foo c[1] = 1 my_setitem 1 1
All is well. Now, if you use a new-style class, the instance method is not
called:
class C(object): .... def foo(self):
.... print 'foo'
.... def __setitem__(self, k, v):
.... print 'C.__setitem__', k, v
.... c = C()
c.foo() foo c[1] = 1 C.__setitem__ 1 1 def my_foo(): .... print 'my_foo'
.... def my_setitem(k, v): .... print 'my_setitem', k, v
.... c.foo = my_foo
c.__setitem__ = my_setitem
c.foo() my_foo c[1] = 1 C.__setitem__ 1 1 # should print "my_setitem 1 1"


Is this a bug, or am I missing something? Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,
Nicodemus.
Jul 18 '05 #1
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