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And the price you pay is that you don't get error checking for constructor arguments any more.
– Dietrich Epp
Commented Jan 16, 2018 at 15:53
@DietrichEpp You could always insert some validation step where you do stuff to clean up/check kwargs before the update.
– Patrick Haugh
Commented Jan 16, 2018 at 15:55
This does what OP is asking for, but would likely be considered poor style in Python. One of the "Zen of Python" python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020 principles is "explicit is better than implicit" and automatically assigning nameless attributes is not explicit.
– bjmc
Commented Jan 16, 2018 at 15:55

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