Aaron Swartz did something like this years ago, except it's ultra simple and doesn't include any of the weird recursive stuff, in his web.py: the Storage class.

Aaron Swartz did something like this years ago, except it's ultra simple and doesn't include any of the weird recursive stuff, in his web.py: the Storage class. https://github.com/webpy/webpy/blob/master/web/utils.py#L52 https://github.com/webpy/webpy/blob/master/web/utils.py#L52