[Tutor] answer to indexing problem

[Terry Carroll]

On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Christopher Spears wrote:

> Several people have asked my why did I make a copy of
> the UserDict module called UserDict2, which I then
> modified to solve my homework problem.  The answer is
> simple:IGNORANCE.  I didn't know any better.  After I
> did this, several people have told me that modifying
> the module directly is a bad idea.  I now know better,
> and for my second homework problem concerning classes,
> I simply created my own to file to contain the classes
> instead of modifying a module.

That's great.  The most wonderful thing about ignorance is that it's a 
curable condition.

You don't want to see what some of *my* early programs looked like, when I 
was a student!  Some of those were *really* ugly.

-- 
Terry Carroll
Santa Clara, CA
carroll at tjc.com
Modell delendus est