Bitwise operations in class inheriting int

Question

I\'ve inherited from int, because I wanted to implement a simple interface for bitwise operations. Due to the non mutability of int, I have to use the integer member functio

Answer 1

ints aren't subscriptable as well as being immutable, so you can't write a working __setindex__() method. It seems like what describing is basically a mutable bit-vector class, such as this one which appears to have been written by Guido. You can use the provided __int__() and __long__() methods to convert it an integer value (although I don't believe you need the latter any more).