Box – Python dictionary with dot notation

`from types import SimpleNamespace` works for me.

Of course I don't want to say that there's no need for box, just that it's good to consider if you're actually looking for a dictionary.

When I wrapped boost::property_tree using the C-API I did the whole dot notation thing but it doesn’t do any sort of conversion — key names with spaces or whatever have to be looked up with prop[“name”] or the getter function(s).

They are quite fun to build yourself, if you are a novice in Python classes and inheritance.

A working implementation doesn't have to be as big as box, it can just be a few lines, if you don't need the class to import yaml files, etc. by itself

from types import SimpleNamespace

mydict = { "name": "moe", "age": 3, "test": {"name": "josh"} # wont work }

dotted = SimpleNamespace(*mydict)

print(dotted.name, dotted.age) # moe 3