Access Dictionary Keys As Object Attributes

By Sudheer S

February 24, 2015

You access Python dictionary keys using the syntax:

my_dicy[my_key]

For example:

>>> my_dict = {'food': 'idly'}
>>> my_dict['food']
'idly'

Sometimes, you might want to access the dictionary keys using:

my_dict.my_key

syntax. If you do this is what happens:

>>> my_dict.food
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'food'

How can you solve this? Easy.

 pip install attrdict

How do you use the newly installed package?

>>> from attrdict import AttrDict
>>> my_dict = AttrDict({'food': 'idly'})
>>> my_dict.food
'idly'