Martin Drautzburg wrote:
> This may be pretty obvious for most of you:
>
> When I have an object (an instance of a class "Foo") I can access
> attributes via dot notation:
>
> aFoo.bar
>
> however when I have a dictionary
>
> aDict = {"bar":"something"}
>
> I have to write
>
> aDict["bar"]
>
> What if I want to create a datastructure that can be used in dot
> notation without having to create a class, i.e. because those objects
> have no behavior at all?
>
> I know that accessing an instance variable via bracket notation would
> really have to be written as:
>
> aFoo.__dict__['bar']
>
> but this does not bring me any further, because I would still have to
> plug in that __dict__ thing into my datastructure, which leads us to
> the same question as above.
>
> Can anyone tell me what I am missing here?
This?
http://docs.python.org/ref/attribute-access.html
Stefan
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