In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Walter Brunswick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why not just update the local dictionary? > > class Grouping: > def __init__(self,x,y,z): > self.__dict__.update(locals()) That's pretty clever. The only minor annoyance is that it creates a self.self. If that bothers you, you can fix it with: def __init__ (self, x, y, z): vars = locals() del vars["self"] self.__dict__.update(vars) or, perhaps: def __init__ (self, x, y, z): self.__dict__.update(locals()) del self.self It doesn't give you all the flexibility of the original proposal (i.e. name-by-name selectivity of what gets imported into self), but it does solve the OP's OP (Original Poster's Original Problem). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list