this is an idea that I've seen used many times in the past.
One of the first refs I saw to this mashup of the keys of a dict and the values in __dict__ was on Activestate in 2006 or so. There are also multiple versions on Stackoverflow.
I know that people use github for many things, including tracking their config files, etc. However, this seems to be a post by the owner of the repo. Would you ever, I mean _ever_ be happy if someone required this sort of 'library' as a dependency in a project? I know I would not.
I'm reminded of the web designer example here (https://gist.github.com/fmeyer/289467) line 89.
I know that people use github for many things, including tracking their config files, etc. However, this seems to be a post by the owner of the repo. Would you ever, I mean _ever_ be happy if someone required this sort of 'library' as a dependency in a project? I know I would not.