assigning values in __init__

[Ben Finney]

John Salerno <johnjsal at NOSPAMgmail.com> writes:

> Ben Finney wrote:
> > If you pass a *mapping* of the
> > "I-might-want-to-add-more-in-the-future" values, then you get both
> > explicit *and* expandable, without an arbitrary unneeded sequence.
>
> Do you mean by using the **kwargs parameter?

No. I mean what I said in this earlier post on this thread:

    <URL:http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/b413bb1f311e7ee1>

If you have a group of named, semantically-related, unsequenced
values, pass them into the function as a mapping object (a dict
object).

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Ben Finney