Drilling down in a dict with "complex" objects

[Sean DiZazzo]

On May 24, 9:34 pm, Six <john.d.perk... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to access an objects sub-object attributes. I can boil the
> code I am working with down to this problem section:
> (snip)
> class Pt:
>   x = None
>   y = None
>   def __init__(self, x, y):
>     self.x, self.y = x, y
>   pass
>
> class Pts:
>   curr_point = None
>   next_point = None
>   def __init__(self, n, m):
>     self.next_point = Pt(n, m)
>   def update(self, point):
>     self.curr_point = self.next_point
>     self.next_point = point
>
> class PtManage:
>   points = {}
>   def __init__(self):
>     pass
>
> point = Pts(3,5)
> pman = PtManage()
> pman.points["odds"] = point
> print dir(pman)
>
> print pman["odds"].next_point.x
>
> (snip)
>
> It's this last line that doesn't work. What am I doing wrong? Is this
> a failure of the design or am I missing something obvious? How do I
> get down and see that "Pt" classes x attribute within the PtManage
> dict?

Don't you mean?

pman.points["odds"].next_point.x