If we're bike shedding, I'd go for "mutableobject". It's not terribly short, but it is built on familiar python terminology and does exactly what it says in the box: like object() but mutable

On Wed, 17 Feb 2021, 23:01 Chris Angelico, <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 8:53 AM Brendan Barnwell <brenbarn@brenbarn.net> wrote:
>
> On 2021-02-17 11:21, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > Okay. Let's start bikeshedding. If SimpleNamespace were to become a
> > builtin, what should its name be? It needs to be short (obviously),
> > but not TOO short, and it needs to be at least somewhat descriptive,
> > and it needs to not cause confusion with "object". Ideally, it should
> > get a name that's unlikely to conflict with names already in frequent
> > use.
> >
> > * namespace
> > * ns
> > * Thing
> > * dump
> > * plunkit
>
>         Does using SimpleNamespace have any other meaningful ramifications
> besides being able to add attributes?  When I see people suggest
> SimpleNamespace, it's usually just to use it as a dict which is accessed
> with attribute syntax instead of item syntax.  Given that, I think a
> name like `attrdict` would be appropriate.  (There is already a PyPI
> package called attrdict that uses this name for this purpose:
> https://pypi.org/project/attrdict/ ,  And I feel like I've seen other
> examples of similar names where someone wrote their own
> mini-implementation of such a thing.)

The main thing it has is a very useful repr, but that doesn't conflict
with the name attrdict.

ChrisA
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