I just found out that if I want to have a custom dict it's not enough
to overload __getitem__, __setitem__ and __delitem__ because, for
example, pop and clear don't call __delitem__. I.e. an instance of the
following will not print 'deleted' upon instance.pop( 'key' ):
class mydict( dict ):
def __setitem__( self, key, value ):
print 'set'
super( mydict, self ).__setitem__( key, value )
def __getitem__( self, key ):
print 'get'
super( mydict, self ).__getitem__( key )
def __delitem__( self, key ):
print 'deleted'
super( mydict, self ).__delitem__( key )
Why is this? There might other gotchas too I suppose. My intention is
clear from the above, what other methods do I have to overload so that
I get what I expect for all dict operations?
Cheers,
Daniel
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