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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 14:28:07 +1000
From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
To: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: looking for standard/builtin dict-like data object
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On 11Aug2015 14:09, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> wrote:
>> I also thought the stdlib had some kind of "namespace" class with this kind
>> of API, but I can't find it now:-(
>
>It does - types.SimpleNamespace(). It accepts keyword arguments, and
>will let you create more attributes on the fly (unlike a namedtuple).

Yes, that's it. Thanks!

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

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