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The thing I though about after asking the question. I like it, although: does it have any pitfalls? Touching __dict__ feels like it may cause some trouble.

Michael Pankov
– Michael Pankov

2012-11-09 17:41:03 +00:00
Commented Nov 9, 2012 at 17:41
The main pitfall is you'll get fields you didn't know your objects had. Besides the fields, you'll get passed the methods and various other stuff that's normally invisible. That's why the sample dostuff function has to accept and ignore other keyword arguments.

Jamey Sharp
– Jamey Sharp

2012-11-09 17:49:25 +00:00
Commented Nov 9, 2012 at 17:49

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