Excellent! That's the way I've been starting to go, so I'll keep at it. 
Definitely, less typing is a good thng

Thanks!
JRAB

On Mar 8, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Frank Rueter wrote:

> during the early beta of v5 we asked for the node objects to return a 
> dictionary to be able to do just this, so do use it! ;) 
> 
> On Mar 8, 2011, at 7:24 PM, Nathan Rusch wrote:
> 
>> I prefer the dictionary-style knob subscription as well, even if it may be 
>> less Pythonic in the purest sense.
>> 
>> -Nathan
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message----- From: Ben Dickson
>> Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 10:19 PM
>> To: Nuke Python discussion
>> Subject: Re: [Nuke-python] knob syntax
>> 
>> node['blah'].value()
>> 
>> ..is less typing, so I use that over the functionally identical
>> node.knob("blah").value()
>> 
>> I use node.knobs() occasionally to iterate over all knobs (or use
>> node.knobs().keys() )
>> 
>> Incidentally I use [''] over [""], because the first can be typed
>> without shift (on UK/Australian keyboards anyway) - same with ("") which
>> can be typed with shift held. Efficiency!...
>> 
>> John RA Benson wrote:
>>> Hey there -
>>> 
>>> Basic question:
>>> 
>>> just curious - if find myself flipping between using syntax like:
>>> 
>>> node.knob('myknob').value()
>>> vs:
>>> node['myknob'].value()
>>> 
>>> Is there any 'best practices' or preferred way to write that? Sort of like, 
>>> do you always use '"' or "'" for quotes...
>>> 
>>> Cheers
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>> 
>> -- 
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