Moving from PHP to Python. Part Two

[Jon Clements]

>
> class Registry:
>
>         data = {}
>
>         def __init__(self,environ):
>                 self.data['env'] = environ
>                 self.data['init'] = 'hede'
>
>         def set_entry(self,key,data):
>                 self.data[key] = data
>
>         def get_entry(self,key):
>                 return self.data[key]
>
>         def debug(self):
>
>                 r = '<pre>'
>                 r += repr(self.data)
>                 r += '</pre>'
>
>                 return r
>

Just thought of something else:

set_entry and get_entry are probably (in your example) better written
as:

def __getitem__(self, key):
    return self.data[key]
def __setitem__(self, key, val):
    self.data[key] = val

Assuming the syntax makes sense for the object.

Then just use object[4] = 'adsfasfd' and object[4] syntax...

Or as a getter/setter as per http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#property

Or depending on the use case for your class, just inherit from the
built-in dict and get its functionality.

>>> class Test(dict):
	def debug(self, whatever):
		print whatever


>>> x = Test()
>>> x[3] ='adfadsf'
>>> x[3]
'adfadsf'
>>> x.debug('test')
test

hth
Jon.