Newbie Questions: Swithing from Perl to Python

[John J. Lee]

Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:
[...]
> In theory, classmethods do allow somewhat confusing use, e.g.:
> 
> myDict = {}
> another = myDict.fromkeys(range(7))
> 
> this leaves myDict untouched and doesn't even look into it, except
> for ascertaining its class.  Apparently, people aren't actually prone
> to falling into such confusions (haven't seen _any_ occurrence wrt
> fromkeys either here, on help at python.org, on python-dev, or any
> other venue where I help, advise and teach).
[...]

That might be because people just don't know about it's existence yet.
I didn't, until you mentioned it.


John