[Tutor] passing arguments to functions - problem with argument order

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Tue Mar 11 15:49:17 CET 2008


<tetsuo2k6 at web.de> wrote

>>> And I thought I might get away without using dicts...
>>
>> Why would you want to? Dicts are one of the most
>> powerful data structures around.

> Well, I know about dicts, however I want to go forward step by step 
> in
> learning - once I feel really comfortable with functions,
> object-orientation aso., I'll certainly look into them again. 
> Besides, I
> _do_ use them sometimes :)

Fine, but I would seriously consider learning dicts as a prioritry.
Certainly way higher that learning OOP. In fact being comfortable
with dictionaries will make understanding OOP much easier
since a class is really just a special type of dictionary!.

Alan G. 




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