Question

Consider I have the following dictionary:

dic={}
dic["var1"]=val1
dic["var2"]=val2

Now I have another object which contains two properties: var1 and var2 .
I would like to run a loop within the object’s method such as (pseudo code):

for key, value in dic
  self.key=value

so that self.var1=val2 and self.var2=val2

How can I implement it in python?

Meir

Answer 1

>>> class Obj(object):
...     pass
... 
>>> obj = Obj()
>>> for key, value in {'var1':5, 'var2':6}.iteritems():
...     setattr(obj, key, value)
... 
>>> obj.var1
5
>>> obj.var2
6

Here I am obligated to say something like “why not just use a dict?”