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jherskovic | 2 years ago

I will admit to implementing `__getattr__` and `__setattr__` in such a way that they mimic object properties in dictionaries, for specific cases. In general, the threshold for doing so should be IMHO fairly high. In my case, - they are data-heavy classes but not @dataclass classes, and - there's enough attribute access that the `["` and `"]` become visually distracting, and - there are nested structures, so so you can write `x.foo.bar.baz` instead of `x["foo"]["bar"]["baz"]` This is especially useful, in our case, in a system that intakes a lot of JSON with a LOT of nested dictionaries.

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