Are object literals Pythonic?

Question

JavaScript has object literals, e.g.

var p = {   name: "John Smith",   age:  23 } 

and .NET has anonymous types, e.g.

var p = new { Name = "John Smith", Age = 23}; // C# 

Something similar can be emulated in Python by (ab)using named arguments:

class literal(object):     def __init__(self, **kwargs):         for (k,v) in kwargs.iteritems():             self.__setattr__(k, v)     def __repr__(self):         return 'literal(%s)' % ', '.join('%s = %r' % i for i in sorted(self.__dict__.iteritems()))     def __str__(self):         return repr(self) 

Usage:

p = literal(name = "John Smith", age = 23) print p       # prints: literal(age = 23, name = 'John Smith') print p.name  # prints: John Smith 

But is this kind of code considered to be Pythonic?

Answer 1

Why not just use a dictionary?

p = {'name': 'John Smith', 'age': 23}  print p print p['name'] print p['age']