>>> data = SomeClass(a=1, b=2, c=3) >>> ns = vars(data) >>> ns['a']                                  1                                        >>> ns['b']                                  2                                        >>> ns['c']                                  3">

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On 5/12/2012 10:50 AM, Eric Snow wrote: 
given a normal (dict-based)  
object you can use vars() to turn it into a dict:






>>> data = SomeClass(a=1, b=2, c=3)
>>> ns = vars(data)
>>> ns['a']




1




>>> ns['b']




2




>>> ns['c']




3


I'll grant that it doesn't work for some objects (like named tuples),




Why not? Seems like it could, with a tweak to vars ...



named tuples already have a method to return a dict.

vars already has a special case to act like locals.



So why not add a special case to allow vars to work on named tuples?