Why is this a discussion?! Just start your program with:
from types import SimpleNamespace as myfavname On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 11:22 PM Daniel Moisset <dfmois...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/ >> > _______________________________________________ > 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/VZ7ZAX443EXVGIZ75XCVL6B6EB7F7NLY/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- The dead increasingly dominate and strangle both the living and the not-yet born. Vampiric capital and undead corporate persons abuse the lives and control the thoughts of homo faber. Ideas, once born, become abortifacients against new conceptions.
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