[Tutor] when I create an instance of a class that inherits from Python dictionary, my data disappears

[tpc247]

hi all, I would like to create a class that specializes Python dictionary.  I would like an instance of this class to store objects representing html form data, and I would like to have an instance of this Data_Set class be able to use the Python dictionary method pop to remove objects as I see fit.  I defined the following:

class Data_Set(dict):
    def __init__(self, dict_of_datum_objects, required=None):
        self.keys = dict_of_datum_objects.keys
        self.values = dict_of_datum_objects.values
        self.required = required

For some reason, whenever I create an instance of this class with data, all I get is an empty dictionary.  As soon as I redefine my class to no longer inherit from Python dictionary, then I get expected behavior, but now I don't have benefit of Python dictionary methods such as pop and has_key:

sdso = Data_Set({'full_name':'full_name_obj', 'address_line_1':'address_line_1_obj'})
>>> sdso
{}
>>> class Data_Set:
    def __init__(self, dict_of_datum, required=None):
    self.keys = dict_of_datum.keys
        self.values = dict_of_datum.values
        self.items = dict_of_datum.items
        self.required = required

        
>>> sdso = Data_Set({'full_name':'full_name_obj', 'address_line_1':'address_line_1_obj'})
>>> sdso
<__main__.Data_Set instance at 0x419690ac>
>>> sdso.keys()
['full_name', 'address_line_1']
>>> sdso.pop('full_name')

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#311>", line 1, in -toplevel-
    sdso.pop('full_name')
AttributeError: Data_Set instance has no attribute 'pop'

Am I doing something wrong ?

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