handling many default values

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Alan Isaac wrote:
> Also, as an aside, no one objected to using
>     self.__dict__.update(kwargs)
> in the __init__ function of the parameter holding class.

It is a common trick, also shown in the Python cookbook, IIRC. If you
are anal about
double underscores, you can also use

vars(self).update(kwargs)

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