[Python-Dev] reducing self.x=x; self.y=y; self.z=z boilerplate code (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Jul 2 02:14:44 CEST 2005

Jp Calderone wrote:

If you use vars(self).update(locals()), it even looks halfway pleasant ;) I'm not sure what python-dev's current opinion of vars(obj) is though (I'm hoping someone'll tell me).

Of course, both of these fall over for slots'ful classes. It'd be nice if there were a general way to deal with attributes of an instance, regardless of the implementation details of its memory layout.

That's where PJE's more generic approach comes in:

  def initialize(ob, args, excluded=['self']):
      for k in excluded:
          if k in args:
              del args[k]
      for k, v in args.items():
          setattr(ob,k,v)

  class grouping:
      def __init__(self, x, y, z):
          initialize(self, locals())

Or, one could have a look at the 'namespace' module, which came out of the last pre-PEP covering this kind of area:

http://namespace.python-hosting.com/

'Record' is particularly interesting from an auto-initialisation point of view (the class attributes define the expected instance attributes). Although I may be a little biased, since I wrote that class. . .

Cheers, Nick.

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