Question

bit of an odd question here. If I have two separate objects, each with their own variables and functions, is there any way those two objects can be combined into one single object?

To be more specific: I have an object with 15 variables in it and then I have my self object. I want to load those variables into self. Is there any easy way to do this or do I have to do it manually?

Answer 1

Use the __dict__ property: self.__dict__.update(other.__dict__)

There are corner cases where this won’t work, notably for any variables defined in the class, rather than in a method (or in other “running code”).

If you want to copy pretty much everything over:

for k in filter(lambda k: not k.startswith('_'), dir(other)): # avoid copying private items
    setattr(self, k, getattr(other, k))