Daylight Properties

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Daylight Properties
Daylight is migrating to a "property" based scheme very similar to Python object attributes.

Should PyDaylight classes do a property lookup if the attribute lookup fails? -- No.

How do you access masked properties?
Properties can have spaces; attributes cannot,
Hard to assign generic Python objects to a property.

Instead, make properties look like Python dictionaries.

  atom = Atom(12)
  atom.prop["color"] = "mauvish shade of pinkish russet"
  print atom.prop["color"]
  print atom.prop.keys()   # calls dt_propnames
  atom.prop["python list"] = [2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21]
  print len(atom.prop["python list"])

The last two lines are implemented by serializing the Python data to a string in the "pickle" format.