On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 21:27 -0700, Paul McGuire wrote: > Of course, very short and sweet! Any special reason you wrote: > self.default_factory = type(self) > instead of: > self.default_factory = recursivedefaultdict > ?
Besides a pathological need to be clever? ;) The former keeps the recursive relationship intact if you define a class that inherits from recursivedefaultdict. The latter would create the nested entries of the derived class as "vanilla" recursivedefaultdicts instead of instances of the derived class. Whether this would matter in practice is, of course, a different question. -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
