So far the closest thing I've been able to find is warlock, which advertises this workflow:

Build your schema

>>> schema = {
    'name': 'Country',
    'properties': {
        'name': {'type': 'string'},
        'abbreviation': {'type': 'string'},
    },
    'additionalProperties': False,
}

Create a model

>>> import warlock
>>> Country = warlock.model_factory(schema)

Create an object using your model

>>> sweden = Country(name='Sweden', abbreviation='SE')

However, it's not quite that easy. The objects that Warlock produces lack much in the way of introspectible goodies. And if it supports nested dicts at initialization, I was unable to figure out how to make them work.

To give a little background, the problem that I was working on was how to take Chrome's JSONSchema API and produce a tree of request generators and response handlers. Warlock doesn't seem too far off the mark, the only downside is that meta-classes in Python can't really be turned into 'code'.

Other useful modules to look for:

• jsonschema - (which Warlock is built on top of)
• valideer - similar to jsonschema but with a worse name.
• bunch - An interesting structure builder thats half-way between a dotdict and construct

If you end up finding a good one-stop solution for this please follow up your question - I'd love to find one. I poured through github, pypi, googlecode, sourceforge, etc.. And just couldn't find anything really sexy.

For lack of any pre-made solutions, I'll probably cobble together something with Warlock myself. So if I beat you to it, I'll update my answer. :p

The following code may help. It supports nested dict as well.

import json


def valid_type(type_name, obj):
    if type_name == "number":
        return isinstance(obj, int) or isinstance(obj, float)

    if type_name == "int":
        return isinstance(obj, int)

    if type_name == "float":
        return isinstance(obj, float)

    if type_name == "string":
        return isinstance(obj, str)


def validate_and_extract(request, schema):
    ''' Validate request (dict) against the schema (dict).

        Validation is limited to naming and type information.
        No check is done to ensure all elements in schema
        are present in the request. This could be enhanced by
        specifying mandatory/optional/conditional information
        within the schema and subsequently checking for that.
    '''
    out = {}

    for k, v in request.items():
        if k not in schema['properties'].keys():
            print("Key '{}' not in schema ... skipping.".format(k))
            continue

        if schema['properties'][k]['type'] == 'object':
            v = validate_and_extract(v, schema['properties'][k])

        elif not valid_type(schema['properties'][k]['type'], v):
            print("Wrong type for '{}' ... skipping.".format(k))
            continue

        out[schema['properties'][k]['mapped_name']] = v

    return out


# Sample Data 1
schema1 = {
    "type" : "object",
    "properties" : {
        "price" : {
            "type" : "number",
            "mapped_name": "product_price"
        },
        "name" : {
            "type" : "string",
            "mapped_name": "product_name"

        },
        "added_at":{
            "type" : "int",
            "mapped_name": "timestamp"

        },
    },
}
request1 = {
    "name" : "Eggs",
    "price" : 34.99,
    'added_at': 1234567
}

# Sample Data 2: containing nested dict
schema2 = {
    "type" : "object",
    "properties" : {
        "price" : {
            "type" : "number",
            "mapped_name": "product_price"
        },
        "name" : {
            "type" : "string",
            "mapped_name": "product_name"
        },
        "added_at":{
            "type" : "int",
            "mapped_name": "timestamp"
        },
        "discount":{
            "type" : "object",
            "mapped_name": "offer",
            "properties" : {
                "percent": {
                    "type" : "int",
                    "mapped_name": "percentage"
                },
                "last_date": {
                    "type" : "string",
                    "mapped_name": "end_date"
                },
            }
        },
    },
}
request2 = {
    "name" : "Eggs",
    "price" : 34.99,
    'added_at': 1234567,
    'discount' : {
        'percent' : 40,
        'last_date' : '2016-09-25'
    }
}


params = validate_and_extract(request1, schema1)
print(params)

params = validate_and_extract(request2, schema2)
print(params)

Output from running this:

{'timestamp': 1234567, 'product_name': 'Eggs', 'product_price': 34.99}
{'offer': {'percentage': 40, 'end_date': '2016-09-25'}, 'timestamp': 1234567, 'product_name': 'Eggs', 'product_price': 34.99}