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Subject: Re: Differences between Class(Object) and Class(Dict) for dictionary usage?
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On 4/27/2016 7:24 AM, Ian Kelly wrote:
> Some other great questions to ask yourself are "do I really want 
> len(my_object) to return the number of items in this dict" and "do I 
> really want list(my_object) to return all the keys in this dict"? If 
> the answer to all those is yes, then it's probably fair to say that 
> your object is-a dict and should be modeled as such.

These questions are more useful for me to consider. For my chess piece 
base class, the answer is no.

Thank you,

Chris R.