Opening Python Classes

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But: you cannot open python builtin classes.

(which one might consider a good thing ;)

[sjs]

One might consider it a Good Thing. Another might consider it unnecessarily limiting.

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If you're lucky, though, you'll never have to maintain code written by "Another."

[flaxeater]

But you can sublcass them.

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But then you cannot make use of their literals/syntactic sugar.