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Harry Boy
Harry Boy

Reputation: 4747

How can I create a Python class with a member named 'class'

I want to create a Python class that represents a dictionary my_dict that I want to convert as follows

my_class = MyClass(**my_dict)

The issues is that one of the dicts keys is called 'class'

So when I do as follows Python complains:

class MyClass(BaseModel)
  name: str
  address: str
  id: int
  class: str                  <-- Python does not like me using the keyword class

How can I get around this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 96

Answers (1)

BrokenBenchmark
BrokenBenchmark

Reputation: 19233

As deceze states in their comment, the conventional way of resolving this issue is to suffix the name of the attribute with an underscore. I'm sure there's probably some hacky way of getting an attribute named class, but it's probably not worth the pain of setting up and maintaining.

This is described in PEP8, which outlines style guidelines for Python code:

single_trailing_underscore_: used by convention to avoid conflicts with Python keyword, e.g.

tkinter.Toplevel(master, class_='ClassName')

Upvotes: 1

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