Ben Finney wrote: > John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> But I do like Steve's suggestion that it's better to be explicit >> about each attribute, instead of just accepting a list of numbers >> (but I can't help but feel that for some reason this is better, >> because it's more general). > > If you pass a *mapping* of the "I-might-want-to-add-more-in-the-future" > values, then you get both explicit *and* expandable, without an > arbitrary unneeded sequence. >
Do you mean by using the **kwargs parameter? If I do this, doesn't it mean that *anything* could be added though? Misspelled words and completely unrelated attributes as well? Or does this matter as long as you are handling the processing yourself internally and not allowing users access to the Character class? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
