Javascript style dot notation for dictionary keys unpythonic?

Question

I\'ve started to use constructs like these:

class DictObj(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.d = {}
    def __getattr__(self, m):
        return s         


        

Answer 1

Because you ask for undesirable side-effects:

A disadvantage is that in visual editors like eclipse+pyDev, you will see many undefined variable errors on lines using the dot notation. Pydef will not be able to find such runtime "object" definitions. Whereas in the case of a normal dictionary, it knows that you are just getting a dictionary entry.

You would need to 1) ignore those errors and live with red crosses; 2) suppress those warnings on a line by line basis using #@UndefinedVariable or 3) disable undefined variable error entirely, causing you to miss real undefined variable definitions.