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Sat Feb 14 07:01:40 CET 2015 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2015-February/138267.html

On 14.02.15 03:12, Ethan Furman wrote:
>> The third choice is to use different specially designed constructor.
>>
>> class A(int):
>>
>> --> class A(int):
>> ...     def __add__(self, other):
>> ...         return self.__make_me__(int(self) + int(other))
>>
>> ...     def __repr__(self):
>> ...         return 'A(%d)' % self
>
> How would this help in the case of defaultdict?  __make_me__ is a class method, but it needs instance info to properly
> create a new dict with the same default factory.

In case of defaultdict (when dict would have to have __add__ and like) 
either __make_me__ == dict (then defaultdict's methods will return 
dicts) or it will be instance method.

def __make_me__(self, other):
     return defaultdict(self.default_factory, other)

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