Getting a dictionary from an object

Bruno Desthuilliers bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr
Sat Jul 23 05:30:19 EDT 2005


Thanos Tsouanas a écrit :
> Hello.
> 
> I would like to have a quick way to create dicts from object, so that a
> call to foo['bar'] would return obj.bar.
> 
> The following works, but I would prefer to use a built-in way if one
> exists.  Is there one?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> class dictobj(dict):
>     """
>     class dictobj(dict):
>     A dictionary d with an object attached to it,
> 	which treats d['foo'] as d.obj.foo.
>     """
>     def __init__(self, obj):
>         self.obj = obj
>     def __getitem__(self, key):
>         return self.obj.__getattribute__(key)

I'd replace this last line with:
           return getattr(self.obj, key)


Now given your specs, I don't see what's wrong with your solution.



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