An empty class 'Object' in builtins, which can be instantiated (with optional inline arguments as attributes (like dict)), and attributes added. Convenience - Easy OO variable container - known to pickle etc.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/3ff946e7da13dba9

http://groups.google.de/group/comp.lang.python/msg/a02f0eb4efb76b24

idea:

class X(object):
    def __init__(self,_d={},**kwargs):
        kwargs.update(_d)
        self.__dict__=kwargs
class Y(X):
    def __repr__(self):
        return '<Y:%s>'%self.__dict__

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x=X(spam=1) 
x.a=3




Robert

This has been requested in various forms over the years.  See the "bunch" discussion on the python-dev mailing list from over a year ago.  There may have even been a PEP.  I believe the general consensus was "it would be convenient sometimes, but it is *trivial* to implement it as necessary".  Also, not every X-line function or class should be included with Python.

This has almost no-chance to get included in the standard library. Also,
Python 2.6 will include ``namedtuple`` (see
http://docs.python.org/dev/library/collections.html#collections.namedtuple),
which provides similar functionally.

Closing this issue as rejected.