On Saturday, 2 August 2014 20:58:59 UTC+1, Ben Finney wrote: > Steven D'Aprano writes: > > > If you need instances which carry state, then object is the wrong > > class.
Fair enough. > Right. The 'types' module provides a SimpleNamespace class for the > common "bag of attributes" use case:: > > >>> import types > >>> foo = types.SimpleNamespace() > >>> foo.x = 3 > >>> foo > namespace(x=3) This is too much for children (& beginners). But perhaps what I should be asking for is for a new built-in that does what types.SimpleNamespace() does, so that without any import you can write, say, foo = namespace(a=1, b=2) # or bar = namespace() bar.a = 1 where under the hood namespace has the same behavior as types.SimpleNamespace(). Naturally, I understand that adding a new name is a big deal and may be too much to ask for beginners. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
