Override Python dictionary to easily access dictionary entries as an attribute

Accessing python dictionary by attribute instead of [key] is easy if you override the dictionary class and provide the __getattr__ and __setattr__ methods as shown in MyDict class.


Before
old = {}
old['Name'] = 'Daffy'
old['Age'] = 30

After
new = MyDict()
new.Name = 'Micky'
new.Age = 30

print values['Name'], values.Name

print len(values.keys())

class MyDict(dict):
    def __init__(self):
        pass


    def __getattr__(self, name):
        return = self.get(name, '')


    def __setattr__(self, name, value):
        self[name] = value


    def __delattr__(self, name):
        if name in self:
            del self[name]

Python Cheat Sheet

Python Cheat Sheet

Case Insensitive Dictionary search:
1. First create a set with lower case values

dict(zip(map(string.lower,a.keys()),a.values()))

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