[Tutor] Interesting problem

[Chuck Allison]

I may be missing something, but isn't this what __dict__ does? Just 
return self.__dict__. This is an old message, so this may have mentioned 
already. Sorry if that's the case. I'm a little behind.

Kent Johnson wrote:

>Smith, Jeff wrote:
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>>Here would be the usage:
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>>myinst = MyClass()
>>print myinst.getprops_as_dict()
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>>would print
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>>{'var1': 1, 'var2': 2, 'var3': 3}
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>>Needless to say I want the instance values which might be different for
>>each instance.  I know that I could code it brute force, but I want to
>>be able to add properties without having to remember to update
>>getprops_as_dict().
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>OK, so will a variation on my last recipe work? This looks for property attributes of the class and gets the corresponding property on the instance:
>  def getprops_as_dict(self):
>    return dict(pname, getattr(self, pname) 
>      for pname in dir(self.__class__) 
>        if isinstance(getattr(self.__class__, pname), property))
>    )
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>Kent
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>>For those who are interested, the dictionary created by
>>getprops_as_dict() will be fed to string.Template.substitute
>>
>>Jeff
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