Alternate Syntax for dictionary elements

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <3b421046.1836046 at news.t-online.de>,
Gerson Kurz <gerson.kurz at t-online.de> wrote:
>Please consider the following:
>
>dict = { 'type' : 'button', 'id': 32, 'name' : 'some name' }
>...
>if o['type'] == 'button':
>	# do something for objects of type button
>
>Now, take a look at
>
>if o.type == 'button':
>	# do something for objects of type button

Why not just do this

class fakeDict:
    pass

dict = fakeDict()
dict.type = 'button'
if dict.type == 'button':
    ....

You can easily muck up an __init__() that uses **kwargs, too.
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