Python initialize multiple variables to the same initial value

Question

I have gone through these questions,

1. Python assigning multiple variables to same value? list behavior
   concerned with tuples, I want

Answer 1

First of all I would advice you not to do this. It's unreadable and un-Pythonic. However you can reduce the number of lines with something like:

details, product_base, product_identity, category_string, store_id, image_hash, image_link_mask, results = [None] * 8
abort = False
data = {}