Question

I have a large dictionary. I’d like to assign each key value pair to an attribute of a class. Currently I have something along the lines of the snippet below. It works, however it’s not pretty. Is there a better way to do this?

Pseudo-python snippet :

config = A large dictionary

self.Width  = config['width']
self.Height = config['height']
self.Text   = config['text']
self.Font   = config['font']
etc...

Answer 1

Pretty simple:

for key, value in config.iteritems():
    # Customize key here, for example transform 'text_height' to 'TextHeight' or 
    # use 'key.title()' to obtain titlecased keys...
    setattr(self, key, value)

You may want to do key.title(), but instance attributes are suggested to be all lowercase in python.