On Feb 5, 9:59 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is it appropriate to use a class as a simple container in order to > access attributes using a series of dot operators? Is their a more > Pythonic way of doing this? For instance, I have a "container" class > which is never instantiated directly, but only through another class. > Access to certain attributes would be something like: > > main_class.a.b.x > > where row and v1 are instances of the container class which are > instantianted by main_class. I know I can use dictionaries, but this > syntax is a little clearer as long as the number of dot operators is > not too lengthy. Some code would be something like: > > class container(object): > def __init__(self): > pass > > class main_class(object): > def __init__(self): > self.a = container() > settatr(self.a, 'b', container()) > settatr(self.a.b, 'x', 2) > > Thanks in advance.
Oops. I meant "where a and b are instances..." instead of "where row and v1 are instances..." above. Sorry for the confusion. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
