Re: [Python-ideas] Augmented assignment syntax for objects.

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 08:02:39AM -0400, tritium-list@sdamon.com wrote:

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self.__dict__.update(kwargs)

Touching __dict__ feels dirty to me.

Indeed. The right way is:

vars(self).update(kwargs)

although that doesn't work if self is written to use __slots__ instead of having a __dict__.

You can even (almost) get this same effect and still have named parameters:

def __init__(self, fe, fi, fo, fum, spam, eggs, foo, bar, baz): vars(self).update(locals()) del self.self