Class factory to produce simple struct-like classes?

Question

While investigating Ruby I came across this to create a simple Struct-like class:

Person = Struct.new(:forname, :surname)
person1 = Person.new(\'John\', \'Do         


        

Answer 1

As others have said, named tuples in Python 2.6/3.x. With older versions, I usually use the Stuff class:

class Stuff(object):
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        self.__dict__.update(kwargs)

john = Stuff(forename='John', surname='Doe')

This doesn't protect you from mispellings though. There's also a recipe for named tuples on ActiveState:

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/500261/