Correct type for a simple “bag of attributes” namespace object

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.12580.1407068955.18130.python-list at python.org>,
 Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> On 02/08/2014 20:58, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> writes:
> >
> >> If you need instances which carry state, then object is the wrong
> >> class.
> >
> > Right. The ‘types’ module provides a SimpleNamespace class for the
> > common “bag of attributes” use case::
> >
> >      >>> import types
> >      >>> foo = types.SimpleNamespace()
> >      >>> foo.x = 3
> >      >>> foo
> >      namespace(x=3)
> >
> > <URL:https://docs.python.org/3/library/types.html#types.SimpleNamespace>
> >
> 
> What Alex Martelli called a bunch?
> 
> http://code.activestate.com/recipes/52308-the-simple-but-handy-collector-of-a-
> bunch-of-named/

Still overkill :-)  I usually just do:

class Data:
   pass
my_obj = Data()

That's all you really need.  It's annoying that you can't just do:

my_obj = object()

which would be even simpler, because (for reasons I don't understand), 
you can't create new attributes on my_obj.