Suggestion: Make parameters a dict

[jamesavery]

It's a bit awkward to address every parameter by name, as is needed when represented as fields in an object. For example, updating parameter values on the command line is much easier, if I could do

def update_params(params,args):
    for i in range(1,len(args),2):
        [key,value] = args[i:i+2];
        params[key] = eval(value)

Then the default values can sit in the json file, but it's quick to supply alternate values without having to change the json or source code.

[nmheim]

you can also access the parameters as a dictionary with params.dict like this:

def update_params(params,args):
    for i in range(1,len(args),2):
        [key,value] = args[i:i+2];
        params.dict[key] = eval(value)

[jamesavery]

Cool, thanks! :)