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Re: Differences between Class(Object) and Class(Dict) for dictionary usage?

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  Re: Differences between Class(Object) and Class(Dict) for dictionary usage? Christopher Reimer <christopher_reimer@icloud.com> - 2016-04-27 18:21 -0700

#107738 — Re: Differences between Class(Object) and Class(Dict) for dictionary usage?

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.

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