[SAGA-RG] SAGA attributes as Python dictionaries?

[Andre Merzky]

Quoting [Manuel Franceschini] (Nov 05 2009):
> 
> As said previously, having an additional way of doing the same thing
> is complicating rather than helping the user. The user will happily
> use the dict interface, but then notice that that is not possible
> anymore once he decided to have an asynchronous job. So he has to
> learn the "new" way anyway. Why not doing it in the first place and
> preventing later confusion?

Sounds good to me.

But maybe its time by now to come to a conclusion - I think I am
reading the same arguments over and over again in the thread ;)

So, there have been different proposals:

 A)  description.executable = "/bin/date";
     description.set_attribute ("Executable", "/bin/date");
     
 B)  description[executable] = "/bin/date";
     description.set_attribute ("Executable", "/bin/date");
     
 C)  description.attributes.executable = "/bin/date";
     description.set_attribute ("Executable", "/bin/date");
     
 D)  description.attributes["Executable"] = "/bin/date";
     description.set_attribute ("Executable", "/bin/date");
     
 E)  description.set_attribute ("Executable", "/bin/date");
     
I think C and D did not catch on - just listed for completeness.
Did I forget a version?

So, I'd love to see a show of hands for the different versions -
maybe we can cut the thread short.

Thanks, Andre.

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