Get dictionary values as attributed

Question

I have a sample dictionary.

>>> my_dict = {'name': 'James', 'age': 10}

I want to get attributes from dictionary as following,

>>> my_dict.name
James
>>> my_dict.age
10

How can I override dict meta methods for this ? I have dictionary consisting large number of key, values. I just want convert it to some object so that it can work as normal dictionary as well as getting attribute as explained above.

```class attrdict(dict): __getattr__ = dict.get```. Solved with this. — Sanket Sudake, Dec 14 '16 at 12:43

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 14 '16 at 12:37

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You could create a namedtuple:

>>> from collections import namedtuple
>>> my_dict = {'name': 'James', 'age': 10}
>>> my_dotted = namedtuple('GenericDict', my_dict.keys())(**my_dict)
>>> my_dotted
GenericDict(name='James', age=10)
>>> my_dotted.name
'James'

answered Dec 14 '16 at 12:37

Maurice Meyer

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But then `my_dotted['name']` would fail. – jonrsharpe Dec 14 '16 at 12:39
Yes, i didnt read the last sentence :/ – Maurice Meyer Dec 14 '16 at 12:41

Get dictionary values as attributed

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