create instance attributes for every method argument

[Berco Beute]

I remember reading somewhere how to create an instance attribute for
every method argument, but although Google is my friend, I can't seem
to find it. This could likely be done way more elegant:

=========================
class Test(object):

def __init__(self, a, b, c, d, e, f):
self.a = a
self.b = b
self.c = c
self.d = d
=========================

2B

[Larry Bates]

Berco Beute wrote:

I remember reading somewhere how to create an instance attribute for
every method argument, but although Google is my friend, I can't seem
to find it. This could likely be done way more elegant:

=========================
class Test(object):

def __init__(self, a, b, c, d, e, f):
self.a = a
self.b = b
self.c = c
self.d = d
=========================

2B

IMHO you can't do much better than that with positional arguments, but you can
if they are keyword arguments.

class foo(object):
def __init__(self, **kwargs):
self.__dict__.update(kwargs)

-Larry

[Duncan Booth]

Berco Beute <cy*****@gmail.comwrote:

I remember reading somewhere how to create an instance attribute for
every method argument, but although Google is my friend, I can't seem
to find it. This could likely be done way more elegant:

=========================
class Test(object):

def __init__(self, a, b, c, d, e, f):
self.a = a
self.b = b
self.c = c
self.d = d
=========================

2B

You *could* do something like this:

>>class Test(object):

def __init__(self, a, b, c, d, e, f):
self.update(locals())

def update(self, adict):
for k in adict:
if k != 'self':
setattr(self, k, adict[k])

>>c = Test(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
c.__dict__

{'a': 1, 'c': 3, 'b': 2, 'e': 5, 'd': 4, 'f': 6}

>>>

but to be honest, your original is much clearer as it expresses the
intention without any obfuscation and as soon as you want to do anything
more than simply copying all arguments you'll want to do the assignments
individually anyway.

[Peter Otten]

Berco Beute wrote:

I remember reading somewhere how to create an instance attribute for
every method argument, but although Google is my friend, I can't seem
to find it. This could likely be done way more elegant:

=========================
class Test(object):

def __init__(self, a, b, c, d, e, f):
self.a = a
self.b = b
self.c = c
self.d = d
=========================

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/280381/

Personally, I prefer to spell it out like you did above.

Peter