Eric S. Johansson schrieb:
> I apologize if this is an FAQ but googling has not turned up anything,
> at least to my keywords.
>
> I need to parse a configuration file from an existing application and
> I'm treating it as a dictionary. I created my class with a parent class
> of dict. Everything works okay except I discover I need to force keys
> to uppercase when setting a value.
>
> I override __setitems__ and, as you'd expect, I get a recursive loop.
> I'm obviously missing a clue on how to break the recursion. My
> admittedly simpleminded method overloading looks like:
>
> def __setitem__ (self, index, value):
> """force keys to uppercase"""
> self[index.upper()] = value
dict.__setitem__(self, index.upper()) = value
Or better even
super(subclass, self).__setitem__(key.upper(), value)
DIez
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