classes and __iter__

[david.garvey at gmail.com]

*Here is a good tutorial:

http://shutupandship.com/articles/iterators/index.html
*
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:22 PM, david.garvey at gmail.com <
david.garvey at gmail.com> wrote:

> I see your meaning for __iter__ method.;)
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> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:57 PM, david.garvey at gmail.com <
> david.garvey at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Thanks Ian & Chris for the conversation...
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>> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> wrote:
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>>> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:30 PM, david.garvey at gmail.com
>>> <david.garvey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Chris,
>>> >
>>> > Both a list and dict are both iterable.  I get a python dictionary
>>> object of
>>> > both iterables.;)
>>>
>>> No, you get a Python object with both iterables as instance variables.
>>> Instance variables happen to be stored using a dict (which is
>>> accessible as .__dict__), but that's to some extent an implementation
>>> detail whose relevance here I fail to see. My point was that, as Ian
>>> explained, your __iter__() method, as written, is horribly broken.
>>>
>>> > It is nice... but I don't know if this is good form?
>>>
>>> I'm confused as to why you wrote a class (particularly when its name
>>> is an *action* rather than a noun; big red flag right there!) for your
>>> task in the first place. I think you'd be best served by moving your
>>> parsing code into a function and using a
>>> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sorteddict , which provides the
>>> sorted-keys property you seemed to be trying to accomplish.
>>>
>>> Also, please avoid top-posting in the future. (See
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style )
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Chris
>>> --
>>> http://rebertia.com
>>>
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>> --
>> David Garvey
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> David Garvey
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