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[Python-Dev] Attributes access with dict

Eric Smith eric at trueblade.com
Thu Mar 24 20:18:09 CET 2011 
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:50:51AM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> The JSON use case seems to be driven because this is the way
>> JavaScript does things -- they don't distinguish between dicts and
>> objects.
>
>    That's particular feature has a cure (or poison - for thos who don't
> want to mix getattr and getitem): json.load/loads have object_hook
> parameter that's used instead of dict. Pass DictRecord (or whatever you
> call that) - and voila!
>
>> I personally think that's a poor language feature: it blurs a
>> line that should be clear, between data (dict keys) and program
>> variables (attributes).
>
>    Me too.

Although we do something similar with namedtuple (instead of using a
dict), so it's not like we have a strict distinction.

Eric.
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