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. Oleg. -- Oleg Broytman http://phdru.name/ p...@phdru.name Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com