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Re:Box: Python dictionaries with recursive dot notation access by an_hn_reader on Friday May 05, 2017 @12:12PM (#14274519)
I like using NamedTuple for dot notation access, it's a good middle ground between dicts and custom classes.

Pandas must use something similar under the hood to provide dot notation access to columns. I wish h5py did the same for hdf5 objects. In py3, I find myself needing to type list(X.items()) and then list(X['Y'].items()) and so on when I'm exploring a new dataset... fairly awkward for interactive use.

Re:Box: Python dictionaries with recursive dot notation access by mythrwy on Friday May 05, 2017 @09:20PM (#14278102)
Thumbs up for namedtuple. It is a good middle ground.