[Python-ideas] Augmented assignment syntax for objects.

[Erik]

On 26/04/17 16:10, Nick Timkovich wrote:
> I was wondering that if there are so many arguments to a function that
> it *looks* ugly, that it might just *be* ugly.
>
> For one, too many required arguments to a function (constructor,
> whatever) is already strange. Binding them as attributes of the object,
> unmodified in a constructor also seems to be rare.

Yes, and perhaps it's more of a problem for me because of my 
possibly-atypical use of Python.

The background is that what I find myself doing a lot of for private 
projects is importing data from databases into a structured collection 
of objects and then grouping and analyzing the data in different ways 
before graphing the results.

So yes, I tend to have classes that accept their entire object state as 
parameters to the __init__ method (from the database values) and then 
any other methods in the class are generally to do with the subsequent 
analysis (including dunder methods for iteration, rendering and 
comparison etc).

E.