Using a class as a structure/container
david.car7 at gmail.com
david.car7 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 22:04:48 EST 2008
On Feb 5, 9:59 pm, david.c... at gmail.com wrote:
> Is it appropriate to use a class as a simple container in order to
> access attributes using a series of dot operators? Is their a more
> Pythonic way of doing this? For instance, I have a "container" class
> which is never instantiated directly, but only through another class.
> Access to certain attributes would be something like:
>
> main_class.a.b.x
>
> where row and v1 are instances of the container class which are
> instantianted by main_class. I know I can use dictionaries, but this
> syntax is a little clearer as long as the number of dot operators is
> not too lengthy. Some code would be something like:
>
> class container(object):
> def __init__(self):
> pass
>
> class main_class(object):
> def __init__(self):
> self.a = container()
> settatr(self.a, 'b', container())
> settatr(self.a.b, 'x', 2)
>
> Thanks in advance.
Oops. I meant "where a and b are instances..." instead of "where row
and v1 are instances..." above. Sorry for the confusion.
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