Help setting default class attributes

[Arnaud Delobelle]

On Sep 6, 6:26 pm, rh0dium <steven.kl... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have the following piece of code and I wanted to set the default
> attributes based on a dictionary. What I am looking for is a way to
> take PIPODEFAULTS and assign each one as an attribute for the class
> pipo.  Can someone show me how to do this by iterating over the
> PIPODEFAULTS and assign them.  What I would expect to be able to do is
> call the class and modify them.

Use the setattr(...) function.

> example:
> a = pipo()
> print a.caseSensitivity
> "preserve"
>
> a.caseSensitivity = "lower"
> print a.caseSensitivity
> "lower"
>
> Lastly - here is my code:
>
> class pipo:
>
>     PIPODEFAULTS={ "caseSensitivity" : "preserve","cellMapTable" :
> "","checkPolygon" : "nil","compression" : "none",
>                    "convertDot" : "ignore","convertPathToPoly" :
> "nil","convertToGeo" : "nil","dumpPcellInfo" : "nil",
>                    "snapToGrid" : "nil","techFileChoice" :
> "nil","units": "micron","useParentXYforText" : "nil","viewName" :
> "layout",
>                   }
>
>     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
>         """This simply will run a PIPO stream out
>         """
>         # Setup Logging
>         self.pipoargs=self.setdefaults()
>     def setdefaults(self):
>         for x in self.PIPODEFAULTS:
>             self.log.debug("Setting %s to %s" % (x,
> self.PIPODEFAULTS[x]))

    def setdefaults(self):
        for key, val in self.PIPODEFAULTS.iteritems():
            setattr(self, key, val)

OR (but I prefer the one above)

    def setdefaults(self):
        self.__dict__.update(self.PIPODEFAULTS)

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Arnaud