On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:50:51AM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> The JSON use case seems to be driven because this is the way
> JavaScript does things -- they don't distinguish between dicts and
> objects.
That's particular feature has a cure (or poison - for thos who don't
want to mix getattr and getitem): json.load/loads have object_hook
parameter that's used instead of dict. Pass DictRecord (or whatever you
call that) - and voila!
> I personally think that's a poor language feature: it blurs a
> line that should be clear, between data (dict keys) and program
> variables (attributes).
Me too.
Oleg.
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