from dict to member vars...?

[Alex Martelli]

George Yoshida <ml at dynkin.com> wrote:

> Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> 
> > Lets say I have a class instance with the following member vars:  var1, x,
> > size.  Now lets say I have dict with the following keys:  var1, x, size.
> > Is there an easy way to *automatically* assign all the values in the dict
> > to corresponding (member) vars of the same name as the dict keys?
> > 
> > Thanks for the help.
> 
> If class is a new style class, you can do it this way:
> 
> instance.__dict__.update(some_dictionary)

You can do this for instances of either classic and newstyle classes,
_except_ newstyle classes which define __slots__ ...


Alex