posting the code - further to odd problem

[Hans Nowak]

Dave Harrison wrote:

> However the packet class code is as follows :
> 
> import string
> pdic = {}
> 
> class Packet:
>         def __init__(self, info):
>                 self.buildDic(info)
> 
>         def buildDic(self, info):
>                 for item in info:
>                         split = string.split(item,"=")
>                         if (len(split) > 1):
>                                 pdic[split[0]] = split[1]
> 
>         def getVal(self, key):
>                 if pdic.has_key(key):
>                         result = pdic[key]
>                 else:
>                         result = ''
>                 return result

It puzzles me how you can do

    for pac in paclist:
        print pac.getVal()

(as quoted from your previous post) and not get an error,
since getVal takes a key as its argument. Which leads me
to suspect that this wasn't actual code. :-)

Anyway, I don't know what kind of items Packet takes
(I got it to work with a list of strings like "a=1" etc),
so I cannot do much there. However, I do notice that
all packet instances share the same dictionary (pdic).
Maybe this has something to do with it? Packet has
no attributes, so I wonder where it takes its value
from.

--Hans