Wolfgang wrote:
Hello,
Alex Martelli wrote:
The DictMixin class from the UserDict module is *not* deprecated -- only
the UserDict class from the same module. (If you found info saying
otherwise pls provide a URL: the info is wrong and I'll try to get it
fixed -- thanks!). DictMixin's purpose is exactly as you state: letting
you make a complete mapping class out of one which only supplies the
very basics, by mix-in inheritance.
If UserDict is deprecated why is it still used in the os module ?
(in python V. 2.4)
The std lib should be a good example for python coding, if something
is deprecated it should not be used in the std lib.
Some weeks ago I had ten minutes of spare time and rewrote the 'os'
module to use dict and there was no problem with it.
But due to lack of time I was not able to run tests and submitted no
patch. I will try this next week.
bye by Wolfgang
Good for you! When you've fixed that up, you might want to take a look
at cgi.py, dumbdbm.py, shelve.py and weakref.py as well ;-)
regards
Steve
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