Not able to read attribute from python dictionary

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I have the below dictionary object which is created by reading each line from a log file. Each line in the log file contains data in json format as indicated by the content of “parsed_obj”. How do I get rid of this error ? I am not able to read the attribute of the dictionary even though the dictionary contains the attribute. Anything I have to do to handle the encoding?

>>> parsed_obj
{u'eventType': u'type1', u'eventDesc': u'desc1'}

>>> parsed_obj.eventType
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'eventType'

>>> type(parsed_obj)
<type 'dict'>
>>>

Asked By: Zack

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Answer 1

Python dictionary access value using .['KEY'].
If u want to access how u wrote like

>>> parsed_obj.eventType

then write new class. like


class NewDict(dict): 
    __getattr__ = dict.__getitem__
    __setattr__ = dict.__setitem__

and use it

>>> parsed_obj = NewDict(parsed_obj)

Answered By: han058

Not able to read attribute from python dictionary

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