Cool object trick

[dataangel]

I read some discussion on this list before about how sometimes it's 
useful to create a generic object class that you can just stick 
attributes to. I was reading the PyPanel source (not written by me) and 
I came across this:

#----------------------------------------------------------------------------                

class Obj(object):
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

   """ Multi-purpose class """
   #----------------------------
   def __init__(self, **kwargs):
   #----------------------------
       self.__dict__.update(kwargs)
Normally I'd just use class Obj(object): pass, but the advantage to this 
method is you can create an Obj like this:

Obj(id="desktop", last=0, color=self.getColor(DESKTOP_COLOR))
You can pass all the attributes you want the object to have this way. 
Nifty :)

Sorry if this has been posted before, but I haven't seen it.
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