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

How about Prodict, the little Python class that I wrote to rule them all:)

Plus, you get auto code completion, recursive object instantiations and auto type conversion!

You can do exactly what you asked for:

p = Prodict()
p.foo = 1
p.bar = "baz"

Example 1: Type hinting

class Country(Prodict):
    name: str
    population: int

turkey = Country()
turkey.name = 'Turkey'
turkey.population = 79814871

Example 2: Auto type conversion

germany = Country(name='Germany', population='82175700', flag_colors=['black', 'red', 'yellow'])

print(germany.population)  # 82175700
print(type(germany.population))  # 

print(germany.flag_colors)  # ['black', 'red', 'yellow']
print(type(germany.flag_colors))  #