Steven Bethard wrote: > Well one reason might be that it's easy to convert from an object's > attributes to a dict, while it's hard to go the other direction: ... > py> options['x'], options['y'] > ('spam', 42) > py> o = ??? # convert to object??? > ... > py> o.x, o.y > ('spam', 42)
"hard" == "slightly less easy"? class Spam: def __init__(self, d): self.__dict__.update(d) then o = Spam(options) or use the types module (if you have a classic class) >>> import types >>> class Spam: pass ... >>> o = types.InstanceType(Spam, {"x": 5, "y": 10}) >>> o.x 5 >>> My guess is the original intent was to make the command-line parameters act more like regular variables. They are easier to type (x.abc vs. x["abc"]) and the syntax coloring is different. Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list