[Tutor] confused: classes containing dicts

[Calum Mackay]

thanks very much for the reply, Kent,

> This is close. Instances of C don't have an attribute l, it is just the 
> class that has this attribute. The way attribute lookup works for 
> classes is, if the attribute isn't found in the instance, look for it in 
> the class (and the super classes). This is pretty much what happens when 
> you access an instance method, too - the actual method is a class 
> attribute.

That makes sense, thanks, and explains why I couldn't see 'l' when I 
pprinted the instance.

> The first few pages of chapter 21 of Learning Python talk about this a 
> little.

Yup, it looks like I glossed over them )

time for another read...

cheers,
calum.