What is the best way to do automatic attribute assignment in Python, and is it a good idea?

Question

Instead of writing code like this every time I define a class:

class Foo(object): 
     def __init__(self, a, b, c, d, e, f, g):
        self.a = a
        s         


        

Answer 1

One drawback: many IDEs parse __init__.py to discover an object's attributes. If you want automatic code completion in your IDE to be more functional, then you may be better off spelling it out the old-fashioned way.