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

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.12592.1407087500.18130.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>
> >
> 
> A slight aside but from the link "SimpleNamespace may be useful as a 
> replacement for class NS: pass."  I'm not quite sure how that class 
> definition is meant to read, other than guessing that NS stands for 
> NameSpace, any ideas?

Trivia: argparse.ArgumentParser().parse_args() returns a Namespace.