On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 04:43:11PM +0100, Sven R. Kunze wrote:
> >>> obj = lambda: 0
>
> to define an anomyous object without the need to define a class first
> (speaking of brevity).
>
>
> "Why?", you may ask. The reason is that:
>
> >>> obj = object()
>
> does not create an instance of obj that can be used to add some
> attributes later on.
>>> from types import SimpleNamespace
>>> obj = SimpleNamespace()
>>> obj.spam = 1
>>> obj
namespace(spam=1)
Gives you a nice repr so when you are debugging you can actually see
what the object is.
--
Steve
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