Correct type for a simple “bag of attributes” namespace object
Mark Lawrence
breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Aug 3 13:38:04 EDT 2014
On 02/08/2014 20:58, Ben Finney wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> writes:
>
>> If you need instances which carry state, then object is the wrong
>> class.
>
> Right. The ‘types’ module provides a SimpleNamespace class for the
> common “bag of attributes” use case::
>
> >>> import types
> >>> foo = types.SimpleNamespace()
> >>> foo.x = 3
> >>> foo
> namespace(x=3)
>
> <URL:https://docs.python.org/3/library/types.html#types.SimpleNamespace>
>
A slight aside but from the link "SimpleNamespace may be useful as a
replacement for class NS: pass." I'm not quite sure how that class
definition is meant to read, other than guessing that NS stands for
NameSpace, any ideas?
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