Can't do a multiline assignment!

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:19:32 -0700 (PDT)
s0suk3 at gmail.com wrote:
> I'm building a web server. The many variables are names of header
> fields. One part of the code looks like this (or at least I'd like it
> to):
> 
> class RequestHeadersManager:
> 
>     # General header fields
>     Cache_Control               = \
>     Connection                  = \
>     Date                        = \
>     Pragma                      = \
>     Trailer                     = \
>     Transfer_Encoding           = \
>     Upgrade                     = \
>     Via                         = \
>     Warning                     = \
> 
>     # Request header fields
>     Accept                      = \
>     Accept_Charset              = \
>     Accept_Encoding             = \
>     Accept_Language             = \
>     Authorization               = \
> ...
> 
> Etc etc etc. At the end they'll all be assign to None. Then, when
> initialized, __init__() will the the string of headers, parse them,
> and use those variables shown above to assign to the header values. Of
> course a normal request won't include all of those headers, so the
> others will remain None. That's what I want.

So basically you want a class that has a dict of headers which __init__
assigns to and to get a header you basically return O.get(header).

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