Thank you Jerry.
And thank you to the rest of you. You all have been tremendously helpful.
PS Chris, next time I will do just that.
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On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Nir wrote:
> If this makes sense to you, great. I am trying to break it down so that I can
> make sense of it. As you mentioned self["name"] = filename doesn't work
> unless I built a class to handle it. I guess my question then, is how is the
> class handling i
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Nir wrote:
> Also, UserDict is a built in module. I just typed it out so as to give
> reference or any clue as to why I cant instantiate jeez.
Recommendation for next time: Don't type it out, copy and paste it.
Show the actual code you ran, and the actual error m
Those two classes are from this code here(pasted below). Quite frankly, I don't
understand this code.
Also, UserDict is a built in module. I just typed it out so as to give
reference or any clue as to why I cant instantiate jeez.
This is from the book 'dive into python'. I am trying to define jeez as being
an instance of FileInfo.
class UserDict(object):
def __init__(self, dict = None):
self.data = {}
if dict is not None: self.update(dict)
class FileInfo(UserDict):
def __in
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Nir wrote:
> class FileInfo(UserDict):
> def __init__(self, filename=None):
> UserDict.__init__(self)
> self["name"] = filename
>
> I get a TypeError: 'FileInfo' object doesn't support item assignment .
>
> Am I missing somet
