JavaScript-like Object in Python standard library?
- by David Wolever
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
