This may come as a shock to my regular readers, but even as a Pythonista and Kotlinite, I’m a little jealous of JavaScript. That’s right; I – a JS hater – am jealous of JavaScript. More specifically, I’m jealous of JavaScript’s object literals (also full-featured function literals, but I don’t think I can do anything about that). Yes, in many respects, JS object literals are almost exactly the same thing as Python’s dicts, but there is one important difference: dot notation access.

So here’s my attempt at accomplishing the closest thing possible toward making object literals in Python. Continue Reading