[Modeling-users] custom object initialisation

[Mario R. <ma...@ru...>]

Is there a particular reason why the __init__ generated for
custom objects does not allow pre-setting of attribute values?
I mean, do not we frequently want to initialise an object
with values, e.g.

mo = myObj(att1='one', att2='two', ...)

instead of having to initialise and then call a setter for each 
attribute
we want to set:

mo = myObj()
mo.setAtt1('one')
mo.setAtt2('two')

  I.e. instead of something like the following:

class myObj(CustomObject):
   def __init__(self):
     "Initializer"
     # Note: if you modify this method, it is a strong requirement that
     # every parameter gets a default value, since the framework needs 
to be
     # able to instanciate an object with no parameter at all.
     self._att1 = None
     self._att2 = None

why shouldn't we have:

class myObj(CustomObject):
   def __init__(self,att1=None,att2=None):
     "Initializer"
     #...
     self._att1 = att1
     self._att2 = att2


Thanks, mario