Terry Reedy wrote: > Right. d.items is a dict method. d['items'] is whatever you assign. > Named tuples in the collections modules, which allow access to fields > through .name as well as [index], have the name class problem. All the > methods are therefore given leading underscore names to avoid this. [But > there still could be a clash if someone used field names with leading > underscores!]
Scripting languages as JavaScript, Python and other so dynamic languages allow user to shoot in his feet. I think the developer should learning the curves of the language before start writing complex applications. That was the goal of this thread. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
