Help on Dict

[Clement]

On Feb 26, 11:58 am, Steven D'Aprano
<s... at REMOVEME.cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 07:15:43 +0200, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
> >  "James Stroud" <jstr... at mbi.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> >> Clement wrote:
> >> > Can any body tell how Dict is implemented in python... plz tell what
> >> > datastructure that uses................
>
> >> I think it uses a dict.
>
> > "Groan!" - this answer is like Microsoft documentation -
> > while technically correct, it is useless...  : - )
>
> Which I think was deliberate. The Original Poster asked a reasonable
> question in a stupid way (Python is case-insensitive -- are we supposed
> to guess what a Dict is? what language is 'plz'?), and I believe James
> deliberately gave a stupid answer to highlight that.
>
> class Dict(dict):
>     pass
>
> is what I thought of when I saw the question. I guess James might have
> thought the same way.
>
> Unfortunately, more often than not, the sort of person who uses 'plz' in
> an email probably isn't going to recognise the subtleties of James' reply.
>
> --
> Steven D'Aprano

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