On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Simon King <simon.k...@nuigalway.ie> wrote:

>
> Hi!
>
> On Aug 23, 8:42 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> > Don't make it upper case.  Make the attribute _is_field.  Otherwise the
> > above sounds great to me.
>
> Or one could have a single attribute "_properties", which is a
> dictionary, and then one can define
>  self._properties['integrally_closed'] = True
>  self._properties['field'] = False
>  ...
>

That's a great idea.

I guess this would provide some flexibility, but I don't know if it
> would be a "clean" thing to do.
> Since I am not an experienced programmer:


At this point you are too an experienced programmer.   How many "lines of
code" have you written?


> Are there reasons to not use
> a dictionary for those kind of things?
>

I can't think of any.

William

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