the right way of handling **args for __init__ and other methods

[David Bolen]

Bjorn Pettersen <bjorn at roguewave.com> writes:

> Since args looks to be always empty when argdict != None, you can say
> 
>   args.update(argdict)

If in fact the use of args and argdict are mutually exclusive and
argdict is only around for passing on from __init__ then it would seem
that you could also just re-assign args, e.g.,:

    if argdict:
	args = argdict

(although I think the apply() approach is probaby cleaner since it
avoids the use of the extra argument to read()).

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