On 29/11/2017 23:34, Chris Barker wrote:
On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 12:52 AM, Serhiy Storchaka
<storch...@gmail.com <mailto:storch...@gmail.com>> wrote:
This is a dict subclass which allows to access items as attributes.
d = plistlib.Dict()
d['a'] = 1
assert d.a == 1
d.b = 2
assert d['b'] == 2
What do you think about reviving this type as general purpose type
in collections or types
Am I I the only one that thinks this is a "Bad Idea"?
For me, it simply confuses even more the question of "is this code or
is this data?" -- which is a difficult enough design question in a
dynamic language.
And the couple of libraries I"ve worked with that do this I liked at
first, but grew to find problematic.
I have also implemented something like this (as a convenience, to hold a
row from an SQL table). But it never occurred to me that there should
be something like it in the stdlib.
Rob Cliffe
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