A subclass of dict that allows object-style access to its entries.
pipenv install attribute-dict from attribute_dict import AttributeDict
sample_dict = AttributeDict({'foo': 'bar'})
sample_dict # => AttributeDict({'foo': 'bar'})
# The object is just subclassed from dict, and has all of the standard functions
isinstance(sample_dict, dict) # => True
# Create a new AttributeDict by "stacking" iterables
# Each iterable will overwrite keys in the previous one (kwargs are processed last!)
sample_dict = AttributeDict({'foo': 'foo'}, {'foo': 'ba', 'bar': 'foo'}, {'foo': 'bar'}, {'foobar': 'bar'}, foobar='foo')
# => AttributeDict({'foo': 'bar', 'bar': 'foo', 'foobar': 'foo'})
# Create a new AttributeDict by shallow-copying an existing one
new_sample_dict = sample_dict.copy()
new_sample_dict # => AttributeDict({'foo': 'bar', 'bar': 'foo', 'foobar': 'foo'})
isinstance(new_sample_dict, AttributeDict) # => True
# NOTE: Child values are NOT processed!
sample_dict = AttributeDict({'foo': iterable_two})
sample_dict # => AttributeDict({'foo': {'foo': 'ba', 'bar': 'foo'}})
sample_dict.foo # => {'foo': 'ba', 'bar': 'foo'}
sample_dict.__class__.__name__ # => 'AttributeDict'
sample_dict.foo.__class__.__name__ # => 'dict'Tests use nose2. Clone the Github project. Install dev dependencies, and run tests using the nose2 command.
pipenv install --dev
pipenv shell
nose2