Robert Kern wrote: >> Заур Шибзухов wrote: >> >>> There is a syntactic sugar for item access in >>> dictionaries and sequences: >>> >>> o[e] = v <-> o.__setitem__(e, v) >>> o[e] <-> o.__getitem__(e) >>> >>> where e is an expression. >>> >>> There is no similar way for set/get attribute for objects. >>> If e is a given name, then o.e = v <-> o.__setattr__(e, v) >>> o.e <-> o.__getattr__(e) >>> >>> Anybody thought about this issue? > > I think he means something like this: > e = 'i_am_an_attribute' > o.(e) = 10 > o.i_am_an_attribute == 10
I always use the getattr() and setattr() built-ins which could be considered syntactic sugar when compared to the alternatives above. But that's all the syntactic sugar you need--any more will give you cancer of the semicolon. -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list