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

class MyClass(object):
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        for key, value in kwargs.iteritems():
            setattr(self, key, value)

You just can't use *args, but you can store in some instance list (like self.args, don't know)