dictionary and __getattr__

[Erik Max Francis]

Harald Kirsch wrote:

> Wouldn't it be nice if this would work:
> 
>   d = {'x': 1}
>   print d.x
> 
> i.e. every entry in a dictionary is also an attribute of the
> dictionary itself.

Why would it?

Furthermore, what do you do in the not so obvious cases?  What happens
if your key is a number?  Or contains spaces?  Or worse yet, is a tuple?

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