diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 82f9275..f2a0259 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -160,3 +160,6 @@ cython_debug/
 #  and can be added to the global gitignore or merged into this file.  For a more nuclear
 #  option (not recommended) you can uncomment the following to ignore the entire idea folder.
 #.idea/
+
+.DS_Store
+test.ipynb
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diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7d29425
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+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools >= 61.0"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+
+name = "itemattribute"
+version = "0.0.1"
+dependencies = []
+requires-python = ">= 3.7"
+authors = [{name = "Andy Mounce", email = "ammounce@gmail.com"}]
+description = "Python class that allows dict item syntax for attribute access"
+readme = {file = "README.txt", content-type = "text/markdown"}
+license = {file = "LICENSE"}
+
+[project.urls]
+Homepage = "https://github.com/ammounce/itemattribute"
+Issues = "https://github.com/ammounce/itemattribute/issues"
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diff --git a/src/itemattribute/__init__.py b/src/itemattribute/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ddec175
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+++ b/src/itemattribute/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+from .item_attribute import ItemAttribute
diff --git a/src/itemattribute/item_attribute.py b/src/itemattribute/item_attribute.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d300de2
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+++ b/src/itemattribute/item_attribute.py
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+
+
+class ItemAttribute(object):
+    '''
+    Class that has properties which can be called like dictionary
+    items
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    dictionary : dict
+        Dictionary object, defaults to None, contains initial
+        attributes for ItemAttribute instance.
+
+    '''
+
+    def __init__(self, dictionary=None):
+        if dictionary is not None:
+            for k in dictionary.keys():
+                self[k] = dictionary[k]
+
+    __getitem__ = object.__getattribute__
+    __setitem__ = object.__setattr__
+    __delitem__ = object.__delattr__
+
+    def keys(self):
+        '''
+        Returns a list of keys.
+        '''
+        return self.__dict__.keys()
+
+    def values(self):
+        '''
+        Returns a list of values.
+        '''
+        return self.__dict__.values()
+
+    def items(self):
+        '''
+        Returns a list of key:value pairs.
+        '''
+        return self.__dict__.items()
+
+    def __contains__(self, item):
+        '''
+        Overloads the `key in object` syntax to check if
+        `key in obj.__dict__`
+        '''
+
+        return item in self.__dict__