Example 5.6. Coding the FileInfo Class class FileInfo(UserDict): "store file metadata" def __init__(self, filename=None): UserDict.__init__(self) (1) self["name"] = filename (2)
What I do not understand is the last line. I thought 'self' was supposed to refer to an instance of the object. But the square brackets seem to indicate a list. Except you can not assign values to a list like that. So where does "name" come from? I am sure this is totally simple, but I missing something. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list