The meaning of "="

[Aahz]

In article <m27hybyo95.fsf at cs.uu.nl>, Piet van Oostrum  <piet at cs.uu.nl> wrote:
>>>>>> aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) (A) wrote:
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>>A> In article <m24otg3hkk.fsf at cs.uu.nl>, Piet van Oostrum
>>A> <piet at cs.uu.nl> wrote: 
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>>>> And to get c.x = 4 working you also need a __setitem__. 
>
>>A> Nope.  You do need __setitem__ so that this works:
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>>A> c['x'] = 4
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>Sorry, I meant such that c.x = 4 does the same as c['x'] = 4 because
>that was what the OP wanted (I think).

c.x = 4 
already updates the instance dict, so there's no need to change any class
methods to support it.  That is, IME it's much better to add methods to
a regular class to make it more dict-like using the built-in instance
dict rather than changing any of the attribute mechanisms.  If you're
really curious, I recommend trying several approaches yourself to see
what works better.  ;-)
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