How to change behavior of dict() for an instance

Question

So I\'m writing a class that extends a dictionary which right now uses a method \"dictify\" to transform itself into a dict. What I would like to do instead though is change it

Answer 1

You can't do it.

I deleted my previous answer, because I found after looking at the source code, that if you call dict(d) on a d that is a subclass of dict, it makes a fast copy of the underlying hash in C, and returns a new dict object.

Sorry.

If you really want this behavior, you'll need to create a RecursiveDict class that doesn't inherit from dict, and implement the __iter__ interface.