Neil Schemenauer  writes:

> Subclassing builtin types is only supported in Python >= 2.2.  I'm
> wondering how many people would be affected if we dropped support for
> Python 2.1?

We use Python 2.1.3 and are not in a position to upgrade at the moment.
We would have too much application code (we use Quixote for our website
but it uses the same Python as our applications) to test and make sure
stayed working.

Erik.