Using attrs for everything in Python

Re:Using attrs for everything in Python by chc on Thursday August 25, 2016 @12:58PM (#12360571)

Well, yeah, but you could implement it without __dict__ just by doing something like:

  for attr, val in locals().items():
    setattr(self, attr, val)

It still feels pretty un-Pythonic either way.

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Re:Using attrs for everything in Python by jsmthrowaway on Thursday August 25, 2016 @01:04PM (#12360616)

Because it is. There is zero reason to be clever here. Yeah, you have to be explicit in __init__. We are all used to it. The "a," "b," "c" examples are disingenuous though because you're often validating, enforcing types, converting, deriving other attributes...

__init__ is documentation. I read it to understand what's going on.

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