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Re: How can I make an instance of a class act like a dictionary?

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On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 23:24:31 -0800, John Salerno wrote:

> Hi everyone. I created a custom class and had it inherit from the "dict"
> class, and then I have an __init__ method like this:

> I know I could do self.variable = create() and that works fine, but I
> thought it would be better (and cleaner) simply to use the instance
> itself as the dictionary, rather than have to go through an instance
> variable.

Check out the "Bunch" class:

    http://code.activestate.com/recipes/52308/

HTH,
Dan

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How can I make an instance of a class act like a dictionary? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2012-02-26 23:24 -0800
  Re: How can I make an instance of a class act like a dictionary? Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2012-02-26 23:39 -0800
    Re: How can I make an instance of a class act like a dictionary? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2012-02-27 12:09 -0800
      Re: How can I make an instance of a class act like a dictionary? Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2012-02-27 15:37 -0500
  Re: How can I make an instance of a class act like a dictionary? Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2012-02-27 10:52 +0000

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