Hi Kent, Kent Johnson wrote on 07.08.2005:
>>So how can I add the values of all the paramaters to my class >>instance in one step? > >There was recently a long discussion of this on comp.lang.python. >http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/ >7346ad00a14e821a/9dc993d295475cac?q=locals()&rnum=15&hl=en# >9dc993d295475cac Thanks for this. I thought I could do it with the help of **args, but maybe I still think too much in Perl terms. It's a bit unexpected that this task asks for such an indirect approach. In Perl, where my class instances are usually nothing but (blessed) hash references, a more verbose version of my actual method would read: package NewClass; ... sub new { my $self = shift; my $parameters = { @_ }; for (keys %$parameters) { $self->{$_} = $parameters->{$_}; } My idea was to transfer the same technique to Python like this: class NewClass: def __init__(self, **parameters): for i in parameters.keys(): self.i = parameters[i] But the assignment in the for loop obviously does not work with instance attributes. I will have to read up some more about instance attributes. Thanks again, Jan -- Bad spellers of the world Untie! _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
