On Jan 28, 12:21 am, Ben Finney <bignose+hates-s... at benfinney.id.au>
wrote:
> "Russ P." <Russ.Paie... at gmail.com> writes:
> > OK, then how about a special function that could be called from
> > inside the constructor (or anywhere else for that matter) to
> > initialize a list of data members. For example,
>
> > self.__set__(host, port, protocol, bufsize,
> > timeout)
>
> > This would be equivalent to
>
> > self.host = host
> > self.port = port
> > # etc.
>
> > I'm not sure if that is technically feasible, but it would cut down
> > on repetition of names.
>
> It's much more attractive, because it doesn't change the function
> signature. In fact, here's a variation that doesn't even need a
> language change::
>
> >>> class Foo(object):
> ... def __init__(self, spam, eggs, beans):
> ... self.__dict__.update(dict(
> ... (name, value) for (name, value) in vars().items()
> ... if name in ['spam', 'beans']))
> ...
> >>> foo = Foo("some spam", "more eggs", "other beans")
> >>> foo.spam
> 'some spam'
> >>> foo.eggs
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> AttributeError: 'Foo' object has no attribute 'eggs'
> >>> foo.beans
> 'other beans'
>
> --
> \ "If consumers even know there's a DRM, what it is, and how it |
> `\ works, we've already failed." --Peter Lee, Disney corporation, |
> _o__) 2005 |
> Ben Finney
If you can wrap that in a clean function that works for every class
you might have something.