On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:40, Jameson Quinn <jameson.quinn@gmail.com> wrote:

"class attrdict" is a perennial dead-end for intermediate pythonistas who want to save 3 characters/5 keystrokes for item access. Other languages such as javascript allow "somedict.foo" to mean the same as "somedict['foo']", so why not python? Well, there are a number of reasons why not, beginning with all the magic method names in python.

This should go on python-ideas. Cheers, Dirkjan