I see your meaning for __iter__ method.;) On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:57 PM, david.gar...@gmail.com < david.gar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Ian & Chris for the conversation... > > > > > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:30 PM, david.gar...@gmail.com >> <david.gar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Chris, >> > >> > Both a list and dict are both iterable. I get a python dictionary >> object of >> > both iterables.;) >> >> No, you get a Python object with both iterables as instance variables. >> Instance variables happen to be stored using a dict (which is >> accessible as .__dict__), but that's to some extent an implementation >> detail whose relevance here I fail to see. My point was that, as Ian >> explained, your __iter__() method, as written, is horribly broken. >> >> > It is nice... but I don't know if this is good form? >> >> I'm confused as to why you wrote a class (particularly when its name >> is an *action* rather than a noun; big red flag right there!) for your >> task in the first place. I think you'd be best served by moving your >> parsing code into a function and using a >> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sorteddict , which provides the >> sorted-keys property you seemed to be trying to accomplish. >> >> Also, please avoid top-posting in the future. (See >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style ) >> >> Cheers, >> Chris >> -- >> http://rebertia.com >> > > > > -- > David Garvey > -- David Garvey
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