Hey guys, author of addict here. Would appreciate immensely if you would file issues of problems you find. It's a very new project, that I cooked up after work hours this week, and any input is good input! Thanks.
This uses twice as much memory as it needs to (and opens the door to potential inconsistency) by storing everything redundantly in both the attributes dictionary and the underlying dict.
Setting an item with a non-string key (e.g. An int or even unicode) is silently ignored.
myDict[u'foo'] = 'bar' # <- this ought to do something
myDict['get'] = 'foo' # <- should not replace the method myDict.get
The mutate-on-get makes it very similar to how Matlab does its "structs", I'm mostly undecided on that but at times it can be nice.
Suppose I have an empty defaultdict(list). I do the following:
d = defaultdict(list)
l = d['foo']
l.append('bar')
As I see it, there are only two sane solutions to this problem: Either immediately store every generated value so any subsequent mutation is saved (the solution used here)...or require that your default values be immutable.