On Jun 25, 5:31 am, samwyse <samw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I need a dict-like object that, if it doesn't contain a key, will > return the value from a "parent" object.
See: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/305268/ Also try subclassing dict and implementing a __missing__() method. Raymond -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list