On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 02:01:30PM +0200, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Thanos Tsouanas a écrit : > > On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 01:43:43PM +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > > Because *obviously* I don't know of these indexing and attribute > > grabbing machineries you are talking about in my case. If you cared to > > read my first post, all I asked was for the "normal", "built-in" way to > > do it. Now, is there one, or not? > > If you re-read your first post, you'll notice that you didn't say > anything about the intention, only about implementation !-)
"""The following works, but I would prefer to use a built-in way if one exists. Is there one?""" > Now if your *only* need is to access object as a dict for formated > output, you don't need to subclass dict. This is (well, should be) enough: > > class Wrapper(object): > def __init__(self, obj): > self._obj = obj > def __getitem__(self, name): > return getattr(self._obj, name) > > This works with 'normal' attributes as well as with properties. Notice > that this wrapper is read-only, and don't pretend to be a real > dictionnary - but still it implements the minimum required interface for > "%(attname)s" like formatting. Thanks!! You made clear what 'the extra functionality' was. Indeed there is no need to subclass dict... > HTH it does! > Bruno > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- Thanos Tsouanas .: My Music: http://www.thanostsouanas.com/ http://thanos.sians.org/ .: Sians Music: http://www.sians.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
