Comment 2 for bug 972135

Workarounds:

1. Helper function for dict -> object

class _Object(object):
    def __init__(self, data):
        for name, value in data:
            setattr(self, name, value)

def dict_to_object(data):
    return _Object(data)

self.assertThat(
    dict_to_object(params),
    MatchesStructure.fromExample(user, 'this', 'that', 'tother'))

2. Helper function for object -> dict

def getattrs(obj, *keys):
    d = {}
    for key in keys:
        d[key] = getattr(obj, key)
    return d

self.assertThat(params, Equals(dict_to_object(user, 'this', 'that', 'tother')))