[Python-ideas] Add a dict with the attribute access capability

[Rob Cliffe]

On 29/11/2017 23:34, Chris Barker wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 12:52 AM, Serhiy Storchaka 
> <storchaka at gmail.com <mailto:storchaka at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     This is a dict subclass which allows to access items as attributes.
>
>     d = plistlib.Dict()
>     d['a'] = 1
>     assert d.a == 1
>     d.b = 2
>     assert d['b'] == 2
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>     What do you think about reviving this type as general purpose type
>     in collections or types
>
>
> Am I I the only one that thinks this is a "Bad Idea"?
>
> For me, it simply confuses even more the question of "is this code or 
> is this data?" -- which is a difficult enough design question in a 
> dynamic language.
>
> And the couple of libraries I"ve worked with that do this I liked at 
> first, but grew to find problematic.
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>
I have also implemented something like this (as a convenience, to hold a 
row from an SQL table).  But it never occurred to me that there should 
be something like it in the stdlib.
Rob Cliffe
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