referencing another method in a class

[Skaperen]

this is all in my effort to create topen() a function that emulates open() as close as it can while opening files being created using a temporary name and doing a rename of the temporary name to the original name when the file is closed. a future function named ztopen() will also perform compression or decompression using the compress library open() emulations functions, based on the name of the file.

one thing i did, with success, was create a way to access the self name space without using attributes. the trick i used was to base the class from the dict type. then i can do dictionary style references to self. this avoided much complication in __getattribute__() [though most of these could probably be done less complex in __getattr__()].

topen() is now working for the basic test i am doing. i have other tests to do, including having many files concurrently open (to be sure things never get mixed up).