Accessing dict keys like an attribute?

Question

I find it more convenient to access dict keys as obj.foo instead of obj[\'foo\'], so I wrote this snippet:

class AttributeDict(dict         


        

Answer 1

This doesn't address the original question, but should be useful for people that, like me, end up here when looking for a lib that provides this functionality.

Addict it's a great lib for this: https://github.com/mewwts/addict it takes care of many concerns mentioned in previous answers.

An example from the docs:

body = {
    'query': {
        'filtered': {
            'query': {
                'match': {'description': 'addictive'}
            },
            'filter': {
                'term': {'created_by': 'Mats'}
            }
        }
    }
}

With addict:

from addict import Dict
body = Dict()
body.query.filtered.query.match.description = 'addictive'
body.query.filtered.filter.term.created_by = 'Mats'