assigning values in __init__

[Ben Finney]

John Salerno <johnjsal at NOSPAMgmail.com> writes:

> But I do like Steve's suggestion that it's better to be explicit
> about each attribute, instead of just accepting a list of numbers
> (but I can't help but feel that for some reason this is better,
> because it's more general).

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.

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Ben Finney