Both Shabda and Nouful used the term "prefer" Is there a "best practice" ?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4984647/accessing-dict-keys-like-an-attribute-in-python This guy asked for "pitfalls and caveats" - but no one seem to have addressed the "question" (There are several answers about "How to do it better") -Mandar On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <nou...@nibrahim.net.in>wrote: > Shabda Raaj <sha...@agiliq.com> writes: > > > > http://code.activestate.com/recipes/52308-the-simple-but-handy-collector-of-a-bunch-of-named/ > > > > With api responses after you have parsed the json, you start doing things > > like: > > > > api_response["attribute"] > > > > I would much prefer to do > > > > api_response.attribute > > I generally like to use attributes instead of keys. One additional > advantage is that I can, if necessary, later convert the attribute into > a property that does more than just return a value. > > [...] > > > -- > Cordially, > Noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers