[SAGA-RG] SAGA attributes as Python dictionaries?

[Mathijs den Burger]

On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 20:12 +0100, Andre Merzky wrote: 
> 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.

+1

> 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?

For completeness: how to express async and task versions.
I assume that would look like:

  description.set_attribute("Executable", "/bin/date", TaskType.NORMAL)

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

I opt for E: one syntax for all cases is the simplest solution.

best,
Mathijs