python - Are object literals Pythonic? -

javascript has object literals, e.g.

var p = {   name: "john smith",   age:  23 } 

and .net has anonymous types, e.g.

var p = new { name = "john smith", age = 23}; // c# 

something similar can emulated in python (ab)using named arguments:

class literal(object):     def __init__(self, **kwargs):         (k,v) in kwargs.iteritems():             self.__setattr__(k, v)     def __repr__(self):         return 'literal(%s)' % ', '.join('%s = %r' % in sorted(self.__dict__.iteritems()))     def __str__(self):         return repr(self) 

usage:

p = literal(name = "john smith", age = 23) print p       # prints: literal(age = 23, name = 'john smith') print p.name  # prints: john smith 

but kind of code considered pythonic?

have considered using named tuple?

using dict notation

>>> collections import namedtuple >>> l = namedtuple('literal', 'name age')(**{'name': 'john smith', 'age': 23}) 

or keyword arguments

>>> l = namedtuple('literal', 'name age')(name='john smith', age=23) >>> l literal(name='john smith', age=23) >>> l.name 'john smith' >>> l.age 23 

it possible wrap behaviour function enough

def literal(**kw):     return namedtuple('literal', kw)(**kw) 

the lambda equivalent be

literal = lambda **kw: namedtuple('literal', kw)(**kw) 

but think it's silly giving names "anonymous" functions