On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 01:43:43PM +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 02:09:54 +0300, Thanos Tsouanas wrote: > > > > print foo %do > > > > where do is a dictobj object... > > Are you telling me that the ONLY thing you use dictobj objects for is to > print them?
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but yes. When you have a long text template to fill-out, with lots of %(foo)s, and all those foos are attributes of an object, it really helps to have dictobj. > I don't think so. I do know how to print an object, amazingly. Please, tell me, how would you print it in my case? > Perhaps you would like to explain how you use the rest of the > functionality of the dictobj, instead of taking my words out of context > and giving an inane answer. I dont see _ANY_ other functionality in the dictobj class. Do you? > Why jump through all those hoops to get attributes when Python already > provides indexing and attribute grabbing machinery that work well? Why do > you bother to subclass dict, only to mangle the dict __getitem__ method so > that you can no longer retrieve items from the dict? Because *obviously* I don't know of these indexing and attribute grabbing machineries you are talking about in my case. If you cared to read my first post, all I asked was for the "normal", "built-in" way to do it. Now, is there one, or not? -- Thanos Tsouanas .: My Music: http://www.thanostsouanas.com/ http://thanos.sians.org/ .: Sians Music: http://www.sians.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
