Bug or Feature with (overriding) Class Variables?

[Roel Mathys]

# on python 2.3.2

class foo (object) :
     dict = {}
     string = "foostring"
     def bar(self):
         self.dict["bar-key"] = "bar-value"
         # is the same as
         # self.dict.__setitem__( "bar-key" , "bar-value" )
         # which tries to look up self.dict
	# try:
	# self.dict2["bar-key"] = "bar-value"
	# which results in an attribute error

         self.string = "bar-string"
         # is adding an attribute string to the instance
         # foo.string remains accessible

baz = foo()
baz.string is foo.string => True
baz.bar()
baz.string is foo.string => False


bye,
rm