[Tutor] __getitem__
Christopher Spears
cspears2002 at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 16 21:12:20 CET 2006
I understand that you can use __getitem__ as a hook to
modify indexing behavoir in a class. That's why
__getitem__ not only affects [] but also for loops,
map calls, list comprehension, etc. For loops, etc.
work by indexing a sequences from zero to a higher
index until out-of-bounds is reached. But why does
this work?
>>> class stepper:
... def __getitem__(self, i):
... return self.data[i]
...
>>> 'p' in X
True
What does 'in' have to do with indexing?
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