kkumer wrote: > Bryan wrote: > > I get the same bug-like behavior in 3.1. I think Peter is right that > > it's probably a side-effect of an optimization. kkumer seems to have > > completely over-ridden the methods of dict, but if we insert into his > > hubDict with the parent class's method: > > > dict.__setitem__(dh, 'c', 3) > > > Then the **dh argument passes the keyword arg c=3. > > Yes. But problem is that this setting of item > should also affect one of the two original parent dicts, > while your proposal affects only hubDict instance. > (hubDict is never used to create new items, just to change > values of existing ones, which belong to one of > two parents).
Right. This is helpful group, but my observation here does not solve your immediate problem. Your work-around seems reasonable, and Peter Otten's demo of what happens if you inherit from object rather than dict might make **dh work as you want. -- --Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
