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On 02/08/2014 20:58, Ben Finney wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> writes:
>
>> If you need instances which carry state, then object is the wrong
>> class.
>
> Right. The ‘types’ module provides a SimpleNamespace class for the
> common “bag of attributes” use case::
>
>      >>> import types
>      >>> foo = types.SimpleNamespace()
>      >>> foo.x = 3
>      >>> foo
>      namespace(x=3)
>
> <URL:https://docs.python.org/3/library/types.html#types.SimpleNamespace>
>

A slight aside but from the link "SimpleNamespace may be useful as a 
replacement for class NS: pass."  I'm not quite sure how that class 
definition is meant to read, other than guessing that NS stands for 
NameSpace, any ideas?

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Mark Lawrence