What is equivalent of *this = that in python?

[Carsten Haese]

On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 11:53 -0400, Emin.shopper Martinian.shopper wrote:
> I have a distributed application using xmlrpc and I'd like for a local
> object to sync itself to match a remote version of the object. I
> realize that I can copy all the attributes from the remote object to
> the local object, but that seems like an ugly solution. There must be
> a better way... 

Copying the attributes will do the trick, and you should be able to do
this in one shot with something like
self.__dict__.update(other.__dict__)

HTH,

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Carsten Haese
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