the annoying, verbose self

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2007-11-26, Bruno Desthuilliers <bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr> wrote:
> Patrick Mullen a écrit :
> (snip)
>> Still an unnecessary lookup on tmp though :)  And it would be useless
>> to use it for one assignment, the idea is to eliminate all the typing
>> with this:
>> 
>> self.var1 = 5
>> self.var2 = "a value"
>> self.var3 = stuff
>> self.var4 = [2,54,7,7]
>> self.var5 = "dingaling"
>> self.var6 = 6.4
>> self.var7 = 1
>> self.var8 = False
>> self.var9 = True
>
> self.__dict__.update(dict(var1=5, var2="a value", var3 = stuff, <etc>))
>
> Someone else ? Or are we done with this DeadHorse ?

I was really upset about having to type 'self' all the time,
until I learned that in ABC, one of Python's precursors, you had
to use '__anInstanceOf_This_TYPE_or_Maybe_A__SubClassOfItInstead_arg0_'.

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