Generic utility class for passing data

[Robert Kern]

bonono at gmail.com wrote:
> just curious, since python don't care what object is being passing
> around and the receiving function has to 'decode' it(be it tuple or
> dict or whatever). What is the advantage of dummy class ?

The convenience of the attribute notation.

For the record, my favorite variation is as follows:

class Bunch(dict):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwds):
        dict.__init__(self, *args, **kwds)
        self.__dict__ = self

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