On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 10:13:53 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.ya...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I don't understand this distinction between an "attribute" and a "dict >> item". > > When did you most recently work through the Python tutorial > <URL:https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/>> You may want to work through > it again, from start to finish and exercising each example, to be sure > you have a solid understanding of basic concepts like these. > > In brief: Objects have attributes; looking up an attribute on an object > has specific syntax. Dictionaries are collections of items; the items > are looked up by key, using a quite different syntax. Those two > different syntaxes translate to distinct special methods. > > You may be familiar with other languages where the distinction between > “attribute of an object” is not distinct from “item in a dictionary”. > Python is not one of those languages; the distinction is real and > important. You'll need to do some remedial learning of Python, and I > recommend working through the Python tutorial.
Thanks, Ben, for your advice. Actually, I think that Ian and Chris and I are making fine progress. I think you misread my question. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
