Except what if you want to access elements based on user input or something?
you can't do
var = "varA"
obj = struct(varA = "Hello")
print obj.var
and expect it to say Hello to you.
objects contain a __dict__ for a reason :P
> Certainly makes writing 'print obj.spam, obj.spam, obj.eggs, obj.bacon,
> obj.sausages, "and", obj.spam' a lot easier ;-)
then why dont you have a breakfast class? if you have this many
properties associated with the same thing you might as well stick them
in a class anyway.
Doran_Dermot at emc.com wrote:
> I rather like it! I prefer writing obj.spam to obj["spam"]! I wonder if
> there is a technical downside to this use of Python?
>
> P.S.
>
> Certainly makes writing 'print obj.spam, obj.spam, obj.eggs, obj.bacon,
> obj.sausages, "and", obj.spam' a lot easier ;-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-list-bounces+doran_dermot=emc.com at python.org
> [mailto:python-list-bounces+doran_dermot=emc.com at python.org] On Behalf Of
> Jive
> Sent: 17 December 2004 06:29
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Re: Cool object trick
>
> Kinda cool.
>
> It's occured to me that just about everything Pythonic can be done with
> dicts and functions. Your Obj is just a dict with an alternate syntax. You
> don't have to put quotes around the keys. But that's cool.
>
>
> class struct(object):
> def __init__(self, **kwargs):
> self.__dict__.update(kwargs)
>
> # Indented this way, it looks like a struct:
> obj = struct( saying = "Nee"
> , something = "different"
> , spam = "eggs"
> )
>
> print obj.spam
>
> # Is that really much different from this?
>
> obj2 = { "saying" : "Nee"
> , "something" : "different"
> , "spam" : "eggs"
> }
>
> print obj2["spam"]
>
>