[tooker]

It used to irritate me having to use alternative grammar for accessing values in a mapping vs accessing object attributes. However this is an area where I learned to appreciate Python's hardline on consistency. Guido in particular has been responsible for keeping the language predictable and concise by disallowing patterns like this in the language itself. So on one hand it's beautiful that it's so easy to implement things like this (which I am guilty of doing too), but on the other it is a perversion of the intentional distinction between attributes and mappings.

I've since learned to love the distinction between object attributes and items in a mapping and happily implement ['this style'] accessors without complaint now.

That being said, if the library just did difflib.get_close_matches() on the key lookup that would be neat for some use cases where you want fuzzy keep lookup.

[fhood]

Honestly Python's hardline on consistency is very nearly my favorite thing about the language.