Newbie Q: dynamically assigning object attribute

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Ben Wilson <dausha at gmail.com> wrote:
>I would like to dynamically assign object attributes:
>
>dict = {
> a : 1,
> b : 2,
>}
>
>for key,val in dict :
>  obj.key = val
>
>I've googled to no effect, or maybe I'm needing to be hit with the
>appropriately sized clue-by-four.

The conventional clue-by-four applied to this question is "Don't
do that: just put the dictionary (or a copy of it) in the object
with obj.d = d (and don't shadow the built-in dict while you're
at it)." Having spent significant portions of the last two days
coping with the mess of adding functionality to a class written
by someone who thought doing what you want to do was a Good Idea,
I can only concur with that conventional wisdom.

Really. Don't do it. (Unless you have a damn good reason. In
which case, you've already been pointed at setattr().)

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