Re: best way to get data into a new instance?


So I'm wondering, is the best way to get all this information into the object to just have a really long __init__ method that takes each argument?

As was pointed out, you might ask that absolutely essential information
be passed to the constructor such as employee id#, but other then
that, I think that it is more usual to do:

class Employee:

__init__(self, id):
self.id = id

e = Employee(32445)

.... later


e.firstname = 'foo'
e.lastname = 'bar'

.... more as the information comes about.

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