What is the raison d'etre for Special/Magic Methods

[Max M]

wooks wrote:
> I know there is a section on this at www.diveintopython.org but the
> site has been down all afternoon.

Usually it is to create a "hook" into Python syntax.

ie. if you want to get content from a dictionary object you do:

result = someDict['someKey']

The somedict then will have a "__getitem__" method that returns "result".

regards Max M