Answer by Chris Redford for How to use a dot "." to access members of dictionary?

Install dotmap via pip

pip install dotmap

It does everything you want it to do and subclasses dict, so it operates like a normal dictionary:

from dotmap import DotMapm = DotMap()m.hello = 'world'm.hellom.hello += '!'# m.hello and m['hello'] now both return 'world!'m.val = 5m.val2 = 'Sam'

On top of that, you can convert it to and from dict objects:

d = m.toDict()m = DotMap(d) # automatic conversion in constructor

This means that if something you want to access is already in dict form, you can turn it into a DotMap for easy access:

import jsonjsonDict = json.loads(text)data = DotMap(jsonDict)print data.location.city

Finally, it automatically creates new child DotMap instances so you can do things like this:

m = DotMap()m.people.steve.age = 31

Comparison to Bunch

Full disclosure: I am the creator of the DotMap. I created it because Bunch was missing these features

• remembering the order items are added and iterating in that order
• automatic child DotMap creation, which saves time and makes for cleaner code when you have a lot of hierarchy
• constructing from a dict and recursively converting all child dict instances to DotMap