On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 03:01:40PM +0200, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > I gave you a solution based on the Decorator pattern in another post, > but there is also the possibility to add a __getitem__ method directly > to the to-be-formatted object's class: > > def mygetitem(obj, name): > return getattr(obj, name) > > setattr(obj.__class__, '__getitem__', mygetitem) > obj['bar']
I used what you suggested earlier with the Wrapper, without subclassing dict anymore. Thanks! > <meta> > BTW, parts of this thread should remind us all that it's usually better > to clearly describe the *problem* before asking for comments on the > solution... > </meta> """I would like to have a quick way to create dicts from object, so that a call to foo['bar'] would return obj.bar.""" Actually this is the problem, (I never said anything about _assigning_ new keys in foo), and the line following it is my question ;) Thanks again! -- 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