Shortest way of creating an object with arbitrary attributes in Python?

Question

Hey, I just started wondering about this as I came upon a code that expected an object with a certain set of attributes (but with no specification of what type this object shoul

Answer 1

This is the shortest way I know

>>> obj = type("myobj",(object,),dict(foo=1,bar=2))
>>> obj.foo
1
>>> obj.bar
2
>>> 

using dict instead of {} insures your attribute names are valid

>>> obj = type("myobj",(object,),{"foo-attr":1,"bar-attr":2})
>>> obj.foo-attr
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
AttributeError: type object 'myobj' has no attribute 'foo'
>>>