Quite often, I find myself wanting a simple, "dump" object in Python which behaves like a JavaScript object (ie, its members can be accessed either with .member or with ['member']).

Usually I'll just stick this at the top of the .py:

class DumbObject(dict):
    def __getattr__(self, attr):
        return self[attr]
    def __stattr__(self, attr, value):
        self[attr] = value

But that's kind of lame, and there is at least one bug with that implementation (although I can't remember what it is).

So, is there something similar in the standard library?

And, for the record, simply instanciating object doesn't work:

>>> obj = object()
>>> obj.airspeed = 42
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
AttributeError: 'object' object has no attribute 'airspeed'

Thanks, David