Vedran Čačić <ved...@gmail.com> added the comment: I think there is a teaching moment here. I think it's important that no object in Python standard library conflates "item namespace" with "attr namespace". (Maybe that isn't true because of some specialized objects, but surely general ones such as SimpleNamespace shouldn't commit that mistake.)
On the other hand, we do have json in standard library, and JSON is primarily based on JavaScript Object Notation (yes, I know it's been extended to fit more languages, but still, its primal DNA shows). And the conflating of attributes and items is so natural in JS (a['b']===a.b) that it took them more than a decate to realize that separating Map from Object might be a good idea. :-) So, maybe we should also have something like JSNamespace in stdlib (presumably in json module). But SimpleNamespace shouldn't be it. As Guido once said, a bucket has a handle, and it contains sand, but it doesn't contain a handle. ---------- nosy: +veky _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue40284> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
