In answer to this part of your question, how to make this work:
Person.Address
'Sydney'
>>>Person.Address.type
'%String'
>>>Person.Address = 'Canberra'
>>>print Person.Address. Person.Address.type
Canberra %String
try using the __getattr__ method of the class:
class objWithTypeAttr(object):
... def __getattr__(self,key):
... if key is not "type":
... return self.__dict__[key]
... else:
... return type(self.val)
... def __init__(self,val):
... self.val=val
...
a=objWithTypeAttr("blah")
a
<__main__.objWithTypeAttr object at 0x00AE0CD0>
a.val
'blah'
a.type
<type 'str'>
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