On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:32 PM, John <washa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hugo, > > Thank you for the response, it's very helpful. I posted a question > earlier to this list (or possibly numpy) about how to create a 'matlab > like structure'. This was early in my learning of Python, and yes, the > intention was to have something that was similar to a matlab > structure... now, I've been using Python much more, and I realize that > this may be in fact 'un-Pythonic'. The problem is, I've used it > extensively throughout my existing modules, and I have become somewhat > comfortable with it... > > I guess an alternative would be to simply define a generic class, no? > > class Structure(object): > pass > > Then, you could easily say: > > S = Structure() > S.this = ['my slice of cheese'] > > and perhaps I would be being more 'pythonic'?? This I could quite > easily do, as, where I have used this class, I almost never actually > use the 'dictionary' like referencing... >
This is better, and I believe it is even mentioned in the official tutorial. A problem with this is that you don't get a lot of the nice methods the dict class provides you with to iterate over its keys/values, find keys, and more such things. You *can* do it this way. But do you have a specific reason for *not* using dicts? Because that would be the idiomatic way. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
