dynamic use of attributes

[ichabod801]

If you just want something you can assign any attribute to, subclass object:

>>> class Foo(object):
...     pass
...
>>> foo = Foo()
>>> foo.bar = 5
>>> foo.bar
5

Oddly enough, this doesn't work with object itself:

>>> obj = object()
>>> obj.bar = 5
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'object' object has no attribute 'bar'

Another handy one creates and assigns any attributes you pass it:

class Morphling(object):

    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        self.__dict__.update(kwargs)

>>> morph = Morphling(foo = 5)
>>> morph.foo
5

I use that type of class to make dummy objects for unit testing.