namespaces module (a.k.a. bunch, struct, generic object, etc.) PEP

[Jeremy Bowers]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:56:45 -0700, Steven Bethard wrote:

> In the "empty classes as c structs?" thread, we've been talking in some
> detail about my proposed "generic objects" PEP.  Based on a number of
> suggestions, I'm thinking more and more that instead of a single
> collections type, I should be proposing a new "namespaces" module instead.

Context: I've never been excited by this proposal.

But I am intrigued to note that with a couple of differences, you've now
converged on a module I've already written for my own use, which I called
a Registry. I actually subclassed 'dict', added some methods to use
dotted-access as you describe, and added some methods for accessing and
initializing a deeper key (basically a "get" that can handle hierarchy)
and a couple of other things.

There are worse things for application config storing than a pickled
Namespace. (Not human readable, but if you don't care about that, as I
generally don't, it's close to usable.)