On Jan 27, 10:57 pm, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wildemar Wildenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > class Server(object): > > def __init__(self, self.host, self.port, > > self.protocol, self.bufsize, self.timeout): > > pass > > ? > > That could temporarily bind those attributes but it shouldn't > persistently mutate the object. > > How about: > > class Server(object): > def __init__(self, host, port, protocol, bufsize, timeout): > self.(host, port, protocol, bufsize, timeout) = \ > host, port, protocol, bufsize, timeout > > That's fairly explicit yet cuts down the total amount of boilerplate.
Not much; you're still repeating each variable name 3 times. I prefer the standard way of one definition per line over this notation myself. André -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
