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17th August 2007 - Link Blog

DictMixin. I wasn’t aware of this Python class (part of the UserDict module): lets you implement __get__, __set__, __del__ and keys() and provides the other dictionary methods for you.

Posted 17th August 2007 at 10:34 am

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