lgr

class AttributedDict(dict):
    """
    A class extending the standard dict so that its keys can be accessed
    as an object attributes (as long as the are strings).

    Notice: this class is not pickable, so for example an attempt to save
    its instance in Django session causes an error.
    """

    __getattr__ = dict.__getitem__

kellyredding

require 'net/imap'

# Net::IMAP raises a parse error exception when fetching attributes it doesn't
# recognize.  Here I patch an instance of Net::IMAP's `msg_att` method to
# recognize the Gmail IMAP extended attributes

# Refer to:
# * https://developers.google.com/google-apps/gmail/imap_extensions#access_to_gmail_labels_x-gm-labels
# * http://blog.wojt.eu/post/13496746332/retrieving-gmail-thread-ids-with-ruby