class dict of subtyped types
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Other dict attributes are missing as well in the dict-proxy. Is this intentional? Thomas
The dict-proxy type is intended to provide a read-only proxy, so the dict-proxy is consciously lacking the update, clear, popitem and setdefault methods. It also seems to be missing the comparison operations; that's an oversight. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
Yes, but you have to use the attribute notation: INT.foo = ... this is trapped so that certain magic happens automatically when you set attributes that override operators, e.g. INT.__add__ = lambda ... --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
The dict-proxy type is intended to provide a read-only proxy, so the dict-proxy is consciously lacking the update, clear, popitem and setdefault methods. It also seems to be missing the comparison operations; that's an oversight. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
Yes, but you have to use the attribute notation: INT.foo = ... this is trapped so that certain magic happens automatically when you set attributes that override operators, e.g. INT.__add__ = lambda ... --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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