Accessing dict keys like an attribute?

Question

I find it more convenient to access dict keys as obj.foo instead of obj[\'foo\'], so I wrote this snippet:

class AttributeDict(dict         


        

Answer 1

From This other SO question there's a great implementation example that simplifies your existing code. How about:

class AttributeDict(dict):
    __slots__ = () 
    __getattr__ = dict.__getitem__
    __setattr__ = dict.__setitem__

Much more concise and doesn't leave any room for extra cruft getting into your __getattr__ and __setattr__ functions in the future.