A Python class: named objects with name spaces

This document presents code in the Python language to implement named objects. Such an object will have a name that identifies it uniquely within a given name space, like a primary key in a database relation. I expect that the names will usually be strings, but the only requirement is that a name must be usable as a key in a Python dictionary. This excludes only mutable types such as lists and other dictionaries.

The fundamental operations on such objects will be: