From af81088fb08525e617b8f1fad7deeabc47588c10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lorenz Diener <lorenz.diener@uni-bremen.de>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 13:16:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Make attribute-style access better

---
 mastodon/Mastodon.py | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mastodon/Mastodon.py b/mastodon/Mastodon.py
index 722c4d5..13c3e38 100644
--- a/mastodon/Mastodon.py
+++ b/mastodon/Mastodon.py
@@ -1400,8 +1400,15 @@ class Mastodon:
         """
         class AttribAccessDict(dict):
             def __getattr__(self, attr):
-                return self[attr]
-        
+                if attr in self:
+                    return self[attr]
+                else:
+                    raise AttributeError()
+                
+            def __setattr__(self, attr, val):
+                if attr in self:
+                    raise AttributeError("Attribute-style access is read only")
+                super().__setattr__(attr, val)
         if isinstance(json_object, dict):
             return AttribAccessDict(json_object)
         return json_object