[New-bugs-announce] [issue35761] Allow dataclasses to be updated in place

[Théophile Chevalier]

New submission from Théophile Chevalier <theophile.chevalier at lenstra.fr>:

Calling dataclasses.replace(instance, **changes) returns a new object of the same type.

>From my understanding there is, however, no method to update in place fields of a dataclass from another one.

I propose to add dataclasses.update(instance_to_update, other_instance, **changes).

This would for instance allow one to change all fields of current object in a sturdy way.
In my case, I currently call obj.__dict__.update(other_obj.__dict__) to perform the operation, but I know it has always to be done pretty carefully.

If this is accepted, I'm willing to post the change.

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messages: 333872
nosy: theophile
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Allow dataclasses to be updated in place
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.8

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