[Tutor] Class definition confusion

Sivaram Neelakantan nsivaram.net at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 19:39:52 CET 2012


On Thu, Feb 16 2012,Alan Gauld wrote:


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> Python allows instance attributes to be added at runtime.
> In general this is a bad idea IMHO, a dictionary would probably
> be more appropriate, but there can, very occasionally, be valid
> uses for it.

Thanks for that, I kept thinking that the author had made some typos
in the book and was getting progressively confused, till I tried it at
the prompt.

 sivaram
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