Using JSON keys as attributes in nested JSON

Question

I\'m working with nested JSON-like data structures in python 2.7 that I exchange with some foreign perl code. I just want to \'work with\' these nested structures of lists and

Answer 1

There is an attrdict library that does exactly that in a very safe manner, but if you want, a quick and dirty (possibly leaking memory) approach was given in this answer:

class AttrDict(dict):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(AttrDict, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.__dict__ = self

j = '{"y": [2, 3, {"a": 55, "b": 66}], "x": 4}'
aa = json.loads(j, object_hook=AttrDict)