Differences between Class(Object) and Class(Dict) for dictionary usage?
Christopher Reimer
christopher_reimer at icloud.com
Wed Apr 27 21:27:22 EDT 2016
On 4/27/2016 7:33 AM, Ian Kelly wrote:
> This class definition looks muddled. Because Test2 inherits from dict,
> the object referred to by "self" will be a dict, and self.__dict__ is
> actually a *different* dict, containing the attributes of self. The
> line:
>
> self.__dict__ = {'key', 'value'}
>
> is essentially equivalent to:
>
> self.key = value
>
> and will be regardless of whether you inherit from object or dict. If
> you find this distinction confusing, then I recommend not inheriting
> from dict.
Which expression is Pythonic? I've seen both used in various examples on
the Internet.
Thank you,
Chris R.
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