[Python-ideas] anonymous object support

[Masklinn]

On 2011-07-24, at 16:30 , Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> If that's all you need, you just have to write a convenience function
> that you put in some utilities module:
> 
> class AnonymousObject:
>    pass
> 
> def make(**kwargs):
>    obj = AnonymousObject()
>    for k, v in kwargs.items():
>        setattr(obj, k, v)
>    return obj
> 
> 
> and then:
> 
>>>> from myutils import make
>>>> obj = make(foo=1, bar=lambda x: x)
>>>> obj.foo
> 1
>>>> obj.bar(1)
> 1
An other option would be to create an anonymous type on the fly to get
methods as well (without having to get a hold on the instancemethod
constructor):

>>> def make(**kwargs):
>>>    return type('', (), kwargs)()

>>> obj = make(foo=1, bar=lambda self, x: x)
>>> obj.foo
1
>>> obj.bar(2)
2

although it makes attributes provided via kwargs into class
attributes (which probably does not matter since the class is unique
to the object)