Alternate Syntax for dictionary elements

[Alex Martelli]

"Skip Montanaro" <skip at pobox.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.994188607.18864.python-list at python.org...
    ...
>     class Dict(UserDict.UserDict):
> def __getattr__(self, name):
>     if name == "data":
> return self.__dict__['data']

Dead-code warning: __getattr__ is NOT called for attribute
names that are keys in self.__dict__.  You can remove these
two lines without ill effect:-).


Alex