This was the direction I was aiming for initially, and I have used this form before, but was hoping there was a way I could go one step further, and somehow get rid of the repetition of "self."... Heh, ideally:
self.{a,b,c,d} = a,b,c,d Alas, not Python syntax... :) I do like Steven's form of a solution, and I think I'll give it a spin for the really ugly spots (refactoring is too expensive right now; prototype-code). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list