Thanos Tsouanas wrote: I'm not sure what you're getting at, but have you tried this:
class A(object): def __getitem__(self, ky): return self.__dict__[ky] for example: >>> class A(object): def __init__(self,a,b,c): self.a = a self.b = b self.c = c def __getitem__(self, ky): return self.__dict__[ky] >>> a = A(1,2,3) >>> a['a'] 1 >>> a['b'] 2 >>> > Hello. > > I would like to have a quick way to create dicts from object, so that a > call to foo['bar'] would return obj.bar. > > The following works, but I would prefer to use a built-in way if one > exists. Is there one? > > Thanks in advance. > > class dictobj(dict): > """ > class dictobj(dict): > A dictionary d with an object attached to it, > which treats d['foo'] as d.obj.foo. > """ > def __init__(self, obj): > self.obj = obj > def __getitem__(self, key): > return self.obj.__getattribute__(key) > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list