Yes, .attribute syntax is much nicer than brackets, especially on German keyboard layouts (needs "Alt Graph"). Why can't dicts just support both? Because of the

Yes, .attribute syntax is much nicer than brackets, especially on German keyboard layouts (needs "Alt Graph"). Why can't dicts just support both? Because of the Zen? Also this is an old issue, see Alex Martelli's bunch class recipe on ActiveState http://code.activestate.com/recipes/52308-the-simple-but-handy-collector-of-a-bunch-of-named/ http://code.activestate.com/recipes/52308-the-simple-but-han... 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.