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Extracting tuple values from a dictionary

Jul 5th, 2000 09:59
Nathan Wallace, unknown unknown, Hans Nowak, Snippet 71, Magnus L. Hetland

"""
Packages: basic_datatypes.dictionaries
"""
"""
> For the specific example I gave, formatting works fine, but what about
> other situations, such as extracting a tuple of values from a hash: 	a,
> b, c = value{key1,key2,key3}
It seems you may want to define a dictionary of your own, here...
"""
from types import TupleType
from UserDict import UserDict
class TupleDict(UserDict):
    def __init__(self,data):
        UserDict.__init__(self)
        self.data = data
    def __getitem__(self,key):
        if type(key) is TupleType:
            result = []
            for k in key:
                result.append(self[k])
            return tuple(result)
        return self.data[key]
"""
That should work the way you want.
"""