Except what if you want to access elements based on user input or something?
you can't do
var = "varA" obj = struct(varA = "Hello") print obj.var
and expect it to say Hello to you.
objects contain a __dict__ for a reason :P
> Certainly makes writing 'print obj.spam, obj.spam, obj.eggs, obj.bacon, > obj.sausages, "and", obj.spam' a lot easier ;-)
then why dont you have a breakfast class? if you have this many properties associated with the same thing you might as well stick them in a class anyway.
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I rather like it! I prefer writing obj.spam to obj["spam"]! I wonder if there is a technical downside to this use of Python?
P.S.
Certainly makes writing 'print obj.spam, obj.spam, obj.eggs, obj.bacon, obj.sausages, "and", obj.spam' a lot easier ;-)
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jive Sent: 17 December 2004 06:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cool object trick
Kinda cool.
It's occured to me that just about everything Pythonic can be done with dicts and functions. Your Obj is just a dict with an alternate syntax. You don't have to put quotes around the keys. But that's cool.
class struct(object): def __init__(self, **kwargs): self.__dict__.update(kwargs)
# Indented this way, it looks like a struct: obj = struct( saying = "Nee" , something = "different" , spam = "eggs" )
print obj.spam
# Is that really much different from this?
obj2 = { "saying" : "Nee" , "something" : "different" , "spam" : "eggs" }
print obj2["spam"]
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