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kangell on 04/08/08


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Dictionary Class

Published in: Python 

This bit of code allows you to turn code that looks like this:

x = {'foo':1, 'bar':2 } x['foo'] = 3

Into this: x = dictclass( {'foo':1, 'bar':2 } ) x.foo = 3

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  1. class dictclass:
  2. 	"""Takes a dictionary and uses it as its __dict__ member, effectively
  3. 	making the dictionary supply the object's attributes."""
  4.  
  5. 	def __init__( self, d ):
  6. 		self.__dict__ = d

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