Dictionaries and dot notation

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Martin Drautzburg a écrit :
> This may be pretty obvious for most of you:
> 
> When I have an object (an instance of a class "Foo") I can access
> attributes via dot notation:
> 
>         aFoo.bar
> 
> however when I have a dictionary 
> 
>         aDict = {"bar":"something"}
> 
> I have to write
> 
>         aDict["bar"]
> 
> What if I want to create a datastructure that can be used in dot
> notation without having to create a class, i.e. because those objects
> have no behavior at all?

A class inheriting from dict and implementing __getattr__ and 
__setattr__ should do the trick...