Neat trick to deal with bunch of JSON records.

half_orm.py

import json

class Record(object):
    """
    A simple trick that allows you to do `record.name`, 'record.age'
    instead of `record['name']`, `record['age']`.

    >>> import json
    >>> data = json.dumps([{'name': 'jack', 'user': {'id': 21}}])
    >>> recs = Record.make_records(data)
    >>> recs[0].name
    u'jack'
    >>> recs[0].user.id
    21
    """

    def __init__(self, rec):
        for fld in rec:
            if isinstance(rec[fld], dict):
                rec[fld] = Record(rec[fld])
        self.__dict__.update(**rec)

    @classmethod
    def make_records(cls, data):
        return map(lambda rec: Record(rec), json.loads(data))