class Bunch( object ): """ http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52308 Often we want to just collect a bunch of stuff together, naming each item of the bunch; a dictionary's OK for that, but a small do-nothing class is even handier, and prettier to use. """ def __init__(self, **kwds): self.__dict__.update(kwds) def get(self, key, default=None): return self.__dict__.get(key, default) def __iter__(self): return iter(self.__dict__) def items(self): return self.__dict__.items() def __str__(self): return '%s' % self.__dict__ def __nonzero__(self): return bool(self.__dict__) def __setitem__(self, k, v): self.__dict__.__setitem__(k, v)