On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 11:28:05AM -0800, Brendan Barnwell wrote: > 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.
If its a dict, it must have dict methods. That leads to conflict: data fields and methods collide. A Bunch (see my previous post) or SimpleNamespace doesn't have that problem. A Bunch has no methods (apart from dunders) and so there is no way for them to collide with field names. Things like attrdict, and the Javascript "convenience" short-cut that allows dict key:item pairs to be accessed through attribute syntax, are an attractive nuisance because of that collision problem. -- Steve _______________________________________________ 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/5SGLEXYT37JWIB4N4LQGEUVZUQ7JOSPX/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
