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Jay Norris
14,824 PointsConversions: Instance into dictionary
I know Kenneth stated that converting an instance to a dictionary was outside the scope of this course, but I would be really curious to see some examples.
1 Answer
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherIt's honestly really simple. instance.__dict__.
But you'll eventually want to control that conversion (I don't suggest you actually do this, though).
In that case you'll need to override the __dict__ method, make it a @property, and return whatever dictionary you want to return.
Again, though, don't do this