On Apr 25, 2010, at 7:31 PM, Michael Bayer wrote:

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> On Apr 25, 2010, at 1:38 PM, Torsten Landschoff 
> <torsten.landsch...@dynamore.de> wrote:
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>> Hi everybody.
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>> After reading the documentation on dictionary based collections at 
>> <http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/mappers.html#dictionary-based-collections>, 
>> I am wondering if I am the only one who things that this code is intuitive:
>> item = Item()
>> item.notes['color'] = Note('color', 'blue')
>> print item.notes['color']
>> I'd rather write
>> item.notes['color'] = Note('blue')
>> That the key is stored  with the value should be an implementation detail I 
>> think.
>> I extended sqlalchemy.orm.collections.MappedCollection with a few lines to 
>> implement this (attached).
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>> Shouldn't something like is be included with SQLAlchemy? Or is this a bad id
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> You should be able to roll this yourself as a custom dictlike collection 
> class . 

sorry, it seems you've done that already.  I'm surprised the existing 
attribute_mapped_collection doesn't do this already ?





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