Using inner dict as class interface

[Matt Jones]

Explicit is better than implicit.  Define the dunder methods so you know
exactly what your class is doing when being indexed.  You only need
__getitem__ and __setitem__ really, but if you want to treat it just like a
dict you'll need __delitem__, __len__, __iter__, __contains__ as well.

*Matt Jones*


On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Florian Lindner <mailinglists at xgm.de>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a:
>
> class C:
>    def __init__(self):
>       d = dict_like_object_created_somewhere_else()
>
>   def some_other_methods(self):
>     pass
>
>
> class C should behave like a it was the dict d. So I could do:
>
> c = C()
> print c["key"]
> print len(c)
>
> but also
>
> c.some_other_method()
>
> How can I achieve that? Do I need to define all methods like
> __getitem__, __len__, ... (what else?) to access the inner dict or is
> there something more slick?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Florian
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