Almost all Python objects implement their namespace as a Pythondictionary, which they expose as their __dict__ member. You can dointeresting things by playing around with this dictionary directly,for example adding bulk name/value mappings to an object by just doingsomething like obj.__dict__.update(pairs ).

I don't like doing this, because I consider __dict__ to be animplementation detail, or at least fairly magical, and thus I feel thatI