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Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 19:14:18 -0500
Subject: Re: anomaly
From: Mark Rosenblitt-Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com>
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Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:90315

In case the example given at the start of the thread wasn't
interesting enough, it also works in the other direction:

>>> class str(int):  pass

>>> str('2')
2  #<----- an integer!!!

Mark