Correct type for a simple "bag of attributes" namespace object

[Akira Li]

Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl at yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid> writes:

> I find the following obscure (to me at least) use of type() useful
> exactly for this "bag of attributes" use case:
>>>> employee = type("Employee", (object,), {})
>>>> employee.name = "John Doe"
>>>> employee.position = "Python programmer"

You  could write it as:

  class Employee:
      name = "Johh Doe"
      position = "Python programmer"

It also makes it clear that `type()` returns a *class Employee*, not its
instance (Employee()) and therefore name, position are class attributes.


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Akira