Newbie Question: Giving names to Elements of List/Tuple/Dict

[Oren Tirosh]

On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 02:41:02PM +0100, holger krekel wrote:
> > class record(dict):
> >     def __init__(self, initfrom=(), **kw):
> >         dict.__init__(self, initfrom)
> 
> But this pollutes the instance's namespace. 

Do you mean that dict methods without double-underscores? Yes, of you
add a field called 'keys' to a record it will override the 'keys' 
method inherited from dict. 

> Is inheriting from the dict class really neccessary?

Another way to achieve this effect is overloading __getattr__, __setattr__ 
but it requires more code and is *much* slower.

        Oren