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Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja

You're reading from   Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja Over 70 recipes that uncover powerful programming tactics in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788294874
Length 380 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
1. Working with Python Modules FREE CHAPTER 2. Utilizing the Python Interpreter 3. Working with Decorators 4. Using Python Collections 5. Generators, Coroutines, and Parallel Processing 6. Working with Python's Math Module 7. Improving Python Performance with PyPy 8. Python Enhancement Proposals 9. Documenting with LyX 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Implementing UserString


Just like UserDict and UserList, UserString is a string wrapper that allows easier subclassing of strings due to providing the underlying string as an attribute. The preferred way to do this is to subclass string directly; this class is provided mainly due to backwards-compatibility or simple cases where subclassing string is overkill for functionality.

While all string methods are available, such as UserDict and UserList, UserString adds the data attribute for easy access to the underlying string object. The contents of UserString are initially set to a copy of some type of sequence; the sequence can be bytes, a string, another UserString or subclass, or any other sequence object that can be converted to a string.

How to do it...

  1. userstring_import.py is simple in that it shows how to create a method to append a sequence to a string, much like adding more items to a list:
      >>> from collections import UserString
      >>> class AppendString(UserString...
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