Circular reference problem -- advice?

[Thomas Wouters]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 12:35:59PM -0700, Sean Blakey wrote:

> Also, your self.map looks like it duplicates the information in the builtin
> self.__dict__.  Parhaps you could use that instead?
>     def dispatch(self, name):
>         self.__dict__[name]()

Don't forget that an instnace's __dict__ doesn't list methods, just data
members. (instance methods are created on the fly, from the unbound
versions, and not stored in the instance's __dict__.)

getattr() will work though, hadn't thought about that one ;)

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