Daily Python-URL has a flurry on "named tuples" today.
This lead me to submit the following comment
"attrdicts, Jon Schull, 2004/09/10
In a footnote to recipe http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52313 'Method for constructing a dictionary without excessive quoting' Ganesan Rajagopal introduced the the attrdict...upon which I have become quite dependent: here it is again (in its entirety)
class attrdict(dict):
def __getattr__(self, name):
return self[name]
def __setattr__(self, name, value):
self[name] = value
data = attrdict(red=1, green=2, blue=3)
print data.red
data.black = 4
Doesn't this do everything the named tuples (do with additional power?)
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I'm sure I'll find out why this is a horse of a different color (sorting and mutability come to mind), but I do want to advertise attrdicts more widely. I've found them very useful because they let me create and referernce to dictionaries in a very readable.manner (as well as in the traditional[fashion] ) and to use the inbuilt facilities of dictionaries (such keys() values() items() etc. ).
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