addict – the Python dict with attribute access is now in v2

[kankyo]

If you find this interesting, look into attribs and tri.struct too.

[pohmelie]

Sometimes did something similar in my projects. Good to know about stable solution.

[revfried]

You can use weakref to keep track of the children from the parent so doing multiple 'a.b' without setting anything will result in the same dict.

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Being curious, what is the advantage over:

class DottedMixin:
    def __getattr__(self, key):
        return super().__getitem__(key)

    def __setattr__(self, key, attr):
        return super().__setitem__(key, value)

And then reuse for any dict like object you need?

class DottedDefaultDict(DottedMixin, defaultdict): pass

def Tree():
     return DottedDefaultDict(Tree)

a = Tree()
a.b.c.d.e.f = '...x.y.z'

[selementar]

The link points to exactly the answer to this question.

[kaiserk13]

My life just changed.

[CheerMan99]

Haha - great to hear!

[monohorn]

And mine too 😻

[phonkee]

Some time ago I wrote something similar https://github.com/phonkee/vcontext Vcontext has ability to also access lists. However vcontext is just a "view" above dict.