Basically, I want to take a
Dictionary like { "a":"bar", "b":"blah", "c":"abc", "d":"nada" }
and use it to set variables (in an Object) which have the same name as a key in the dictionary.
class Foo(object)
{
self.a = ""
self.b = ""
self.c = ""
}
So in the the end self.a = "bar", self.b = "blah", etc... (and key "d" is ignored)
Any ideas?
Translating your class statement to Python,
class Foo(object):
def __init__(self):
self.a = self.b = self.c = ''
def fromdict(self, d):
for k in d:
if hasattr(self, k):
setattr(self, k, d[k])
the fromdict method seems to have the functionality you request.
class Foo(object):
a, b, c = "", "", ""
foo = Foo()
_dict = { "a":"bar", "b":"blah", "c":"abc", "d":"nada" }
for k,v in _dict.iteritems():
if hasattr(foo, k):
setattr(foo, k, v)
Another option is to use argument unpacking:
class Foo(object):
def __init__(self, a='', b='', c='', **kwargs)
self.a = a
self.b = b
self.c = c
d = { "a":"bar", "b":"blah", "c":"abc", "d":"nada" }
f = Foo(**d)
