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From: Christopher Reimer <christopher_reimer@icloud.com>
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Subject: Re: Pythonic style
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 21:00:44 -0700
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On 4/27/2016 8:23 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> If you want items in a mapping, explicitly use a Python ‘dict’ instance.
> If you want attributes that describe an object, explicitly use
> attributes of that object. Deliberately choose which one makes more
> sense.

Okay, that makes sense.

Thank you,

Chris R.