Or do what Steven said if its exactly a dict and doesn't require special management of the underlying dict.
*Matt Jones* On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Matt Jones <matt.walker.jo...@gmail.com>wrote: > Explicit is better than implicit. Define the dunder methods so you know > exactly what your class is doing when being indexed. You only need > __getitem__ and __setitem__ really, but if you want to treat it just like a > dict you'll need __delitem__, __len__, __iter__, __contains__ as well. > > *Matt Jones* > > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Florian Lindner <mailingli...@xgm.de>wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have a: >> >> class C: >> def __init__(self): >> d = dict_like_object_created_somewhere_else() >> >> def some_other_methods(self): >> pass >> >> >> class C should behave like a it was the dict d. So I could do: >> >> c = C() >> print c["key"] >> print len(c) >> >> but also >> >> c.some_other_method() >> >> How can I achieve that? Do I need to define all methods like >> __getitem__, __len__, ... (what else?) to access the inner dict or is >> there something more slick? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Florian >> -- >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >> > >
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