variable variables?

[Chris Lawrence]

On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 00:38:20 GMT, Matthew R. MacIntyre <matt at matty.dyndns.org> wrote:
> More specifically, i'm trying to set instance variables in a class using
> an argument containing a dictionary in the constructor .... something like
> this:
> 
> class TestClass:
> 	def __init__(self,dict):
>            for x in dict.keys()
>              self._{x} = dict[x]

for x in dict.keys():
  self.__dict__[x] == dict[x]

or (more elegantly):

self.__dict__.update(dict)

(The latter may be a 1.6ism; I don't remember)


Chris
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