"literal" objects

[Ahmed MOHAMED ALI]

Hi ,

Question 1:

You can use classes like C struct ,here's the way to do

class struct_type
    pass:

mystruct = struct_type()
mystruct .a=3
mystruct .b=5.0

Question 2:
sys.append




"Moosebumps" <purely at unadulterated.nonsense> wrote in message
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> I've googled all over for this but can't find an answer...
>
> I'm fairly new to Python, and wondering if you can just list a bunch of
> objects as data.  For example, in C you would just do something like this:
>
> struct
> {
>     int a;
>     float b;
> } mystruct;
>
> mystruct x = { 3, 5.0f };
> mystruct y = { 5, 15.0f };
>
> These are just "data".  Obviously in python you could just write an init
> function like this:
>
> x.a = 3;
> x.b = 5;
>
> y.a = 5;
> y.b = 15;
>
> And that would work fine, but the programmer in me says that that's a
pretty
> inelegant way to do it.  Why execute code when all you need is to put data
> in the program?
>
> A thought that occured to me is that classes are implemented as
dictionaries
> (correct?).  So you could have a dictionary like this:
>
> x = {'a': 3, 'b': 5}
> y = {'a': 5, 'b': 15}
>
> This would be the __dict__ attribute of an object I suppose.  But I don't
> see anyway to assign it to a variable so you could access them like x.a
and
> y.a.  I don't know if this would be a "nice" way to do it or not.
>
> Question 2:
>
> If "subfolder" is a folder under "basefolder", and basefolder contains
> "base.py", and subfolder contains "sub.py", how do I import sub.py into
> base.py?  From what I can tell so far it only works if the files are in
the
> same directory.  I need to be able to do this without modifying any
> environment variables or anything.  Because the scripts will be run on
many
> different machines and I have no way of automatically configuring them.
>
> thanks,
> MB
>
>