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Author	bethard
Recipients	bethard, djc, gpolo, gward, rhettinger, shawnmorel
Date	2008-04-02.15:34:28
SpamBayes Score	0.18250646
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Message-id	<1207150470.41.0.456486068876.issue2444@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Subclassing dict seems like a bad idea. The options value returned by .parse_args() is not supposed to be dict-like, it's supposed to be object-like. That is, the natural way of accessing values from it is through dotted attribute access, not dict-indexing access. All the documentation for the module makes this clear. Giving it both attribute access and dict-indexing access would violate TOOWTDI. The One Obvious way to get dict-indexing access from an attribute oriented object is already vars().

Subclassing dict seems like a bad idea. The options value returned by
.parse_args() is not supposed to be dict-like, it's supposed to be
object-like. That is, the natural way of accessing values from it is
through dotted attribute access, not dict-indexing access. All the
documentation for the module makes this clear. Giving it both attribute
access and dict-indexing access would violate TOOWTDI. The One Obvious
way to get dict-indexing access from an attribute oriented object is
already vars().

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-04-02 15:34:30	bethard	set	spambayes_score: 0.182506 -> 0.18250646 recipients: + bethard, gward, rhettinger, gpolo, djc, shawnmorel
2008-04-02 15:34:30	bethard	set	spambayes_score: 0.182506 -> 0.182506 messageid: <1207150470.41.0.456486068876.issue2444@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-04-02 15:34:28	bethard	link	issue2444 messages
2008-04-02 15:34:28	bethard	create