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[Turhan Ozen]

__getattr__ is getting into infinite loop. I just copied the code. Could 
you please help me how to avoid this?
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Alex Martelli wrote:

It looks to me that a good solution is a "list with named items" class. 
E.g., in Python 2.3 (warning, untested code):

class list_with_names(list):
    def __init__(self, names):
        list.__init__(self, len(names)*[None])
        self.__names = {}
        for i, name in enumerate(names):
            self.__names[name] = i
    def __getattr__(self, name):
        try: return self.__names[name]
        except KeyError: raise AttributeError
    def __setattr__(self, name, value):
        try: self[self.__names[name]] = value
        except LookupError: object.__setattr__(self, name, value)

So instead of keeping your values in an 'array' (?), you'll do:

# e.g. a list of 5 items
x = list_with_names('aname another yetanother onemore andthistoo')
and then you can access and/or set e.g. x[1] equivalently to x.another. 
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