Newbie question about __getattr__ and __setattr__

[Tim Evans]

felixt at dicksonstreet.com (Felix Thibault) writes:

[snip]
> I also wanted to be able to do this by assignment so I tried to
> make a __setattr__ method, but if I do:
> 
> i[1][2][3] = 4
> 
> I get an exception from __getattr__. So my question is- Is there
> a way to tell that __getattr__ is being called in an assignment, and not
> to get a value, and is there a way to get all the keys and values at once?
> Or is this a Bad Idea?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Felix

What about just storing all the nested keys as a tuple:

i[1,2,3] = 4

The dictionary key will be a tuple, which is fine as any immutable
object can be a key.  It might not be as efficient, but if you wanted
efficiency you would be using C, not python.

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Tim Evans