If we're bike shedding, I'd go for "mutableobject". It's not terribly short, but it is built on familiar python terminology and does exactly what it says in the box: like object() but mutable
On Wed, 17 Feb 2021, 23:01 Chris Angelico, <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 8:53 AM Brendan Barnwell <brenb...@brenbarn.net> > wrote: > > > > On 2021-02-17 11:21, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > Okay. Let's start bikeshedding. If SimpleNamespace were to become a > > > builtin, what should its name be? It needs to be short (obviously), > > > but not TOO short, and it needs to be at least somewhat descriptive, > > > and it needs to not cause confusion with "object". Ideally, it should > > > get a name that's unlikely to conflict with names already in frequent > > > use. > > > > > > * namespace > > > * ns > > > * Thing > > > * dump > > > * plunkit > > > > Does using SimpleNamespace have any other meaningful > ramifications > > besides being able to add attributes? When I see people suggest > > SimpleNamespace, it's usually just to use it as a dict which is accessed > > with attribute syntax instead of item syntax. Given that, I think a > > name like `attrdict` would be appropriate. (There is already a PyPI > > package called attrdict that uses this name for this purpose: > > https://pypi.org/project/attrdict/ , And I feel like I've seen other > > examples of similar names where someone wrote their own > > mini-implementation of such a thing.) > > The main thing it has is a very useful repr, but that doesn't conflict > with the name attrdict. > > ChrisA > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/BNXRZJIVFB23M6X374MP24GI7CPMOFSU/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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