FWIW, you can count me about the people who (re)wrote this same thing (actually with some difference, since I wanted to keep the order, so I used nested lists instead of nested dictionaries, but the idea was similar). I would welcome some module in the standard library to store hierarchical data.
This is one of the reasons why Steven's idea of switching to proposing a new module is a good one. It then provides a natural location for any future extensions of the idea such as Records (i.e. namespaces with a defined set of legal fields) and NamedTuples and NamedLists (i.e. namespaces with a defined field order)
Cheers, Nick
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