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#  Copyright (c) 2007 Helmut Merz helmutm@cy55.de
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"""
A general purpose (thus 'Jeep') class that provides most of the interfaces
of sequences and dictionaries and in addition allows attribute access to
the dictionary entries.

$Id$
"""

_notfound = object()

class Jeep(object):

    _attributes = ('_sequence',)

    def __init__(self, init=None):
        self._sequence = []
        if init is not None:
            for attr, value in init:
                setattr(self, attr, value)

    def __iter__(self):
        for key in self._sequence:
            yield key

    def __setattr__(self, attr, value):
        if not attr in self._attributes:
            if getattr(self, attr, _notfound) is _notfound:
                self._sequence.append(attr)
        object.__setattr__(self, attr, value)

    def __getitem__(self, key):
        if type(key) is int:
            return getattr(self, self._sequence[key])
        value = getattr(self, key, _notfound)
        if value is _notfound:
            raise KeyError(key)
        return value

    def __setitem__(self, key, value):
        setattr(self, key, value)

    def keys(self):
        return list(self)

    def values(self):
        return [self[k] for k in self]

    def items(self):
        return [(k, self[k]) for k in self]

    def get(self, key, default=None):
        return getattr(self, key, default)