One thing that is cooler with java-script than in python is that dictionaries
and objects are the same thing. It allows browsing of complex hierarchical data
syntactically easy.
For manipulating complex jsonable data, one will always prefer writing:
buildrequest.properties.myprop
rather than
brd
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> This has been proposed and discussed and even implemented many
> times on this list and others.
>
I can find this question on SO
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4984647/accessing-dict-keys-like-an-attribute-in-python
which is basically answered with this solution
class AttributeDict(dict):