__dict__ is neato torpedo!

[Terry Reedy]

On 6/11/2011 9:32 PM, Andrew Berg wrote:
> I'm pretty happy that I can copy variables and their value from one

You are copying names and their associations, but not the objects or 
thier values.

> object's namespace to another object's namespace with the same variable
> names automatically:
>
> class simpleObject():
>      pass
>
> a = simpleObject()
> b = simpleObject()
>
> a.val1 = 1
> a.val2 = 2
> b.__dict__.update(a.__dict__)
> a.val1 = 'a'
>
>>>> a.val1
> 'a'
>>>> a.val2
> 2
>>>> b.val1
> 1
>>>> b.val2
> 2


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy