Mitja Trampus wrote: > I think what was unexpected for the OP is that dict.__init__ > does not use __setitem__ to create its internal structures.
you can implement most methods on core objects in terms of other methods. picking one by random, and then complaining that other methods don't use the one you picked, strikes me as a rather naive view of how object-oriented design works in practice. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
