On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 8:22 PM, Vladimir Ignatov <kmis...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > In my code I often use my own home-brewed object for passing bunch of > data between functions. Something like: > > class Data(object): > def __init__ (self, **kwargs): > self.__dict__ = kwargs > > .... > > return Data(attr1=..., attr2=..., attr3=...) > > Logically it works like plain dictionary but with nice result.attrX > syntax on client side (instead of resut['attrX']). Overall I am > pretty happy with this approach except that I need to drag Data class > around my projects and import its module in every code producing data. > > I am curious if anybody knows similar "dummy" class located in > standard libraries? I'd be glad to use it instead.
This is commonly known as a "Bunch" class, after the Python Cookbook recipe. I don't believe there's any public version of it in the std lib, but there is a PyPI package for it: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bunch However, if the set of attribute names is fixed and an immutable datatype is acceptable, you could use the std lib's "namedtuple" type: https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collections.namedtuple Cheers, Chris -- http://chrisrebert.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
