Defining __getitem__() in a class that inherits from (dict)
Steven Bethard
steven.bethard at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 18:51:24 EST 2005
Michael Hoffman wrote:
> Tobiah wrote:
>
>> If within the __getitem__ method I attempt
>> to get an item from self, the __getitem__ method is
>> called in an infinite recursion.
>
> You need to explicitly use dict.__getitem__(self, key) instead of
> using self[key] directly.
or super(bar, self).__getitem__(key)
STeVe
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