Small Values of Cool: Windows system tray icons with Python

Small Values of Cool: Windows system tray icons with Python provides a way to have a menu of internal links created in Python living in the system tray (I think).

ASPN : Python Cookbook : Automatically set all passed parameters to self

ASPN : Python Cookbook has a recipe for automatically assigning variables passed in to the equivalent self.variable in the class.

The simplest way is found in the comments:
Instead of specifying it as:
class Old:
def __init__(self, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i=200, j=100):
self.a = a
self.b = b
self.c = c
self.d = d
... and so on

do it as:

class FooBar:
def __init__(self, a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h, i=100, j=100):
self.__dict__.update(locals())

ASPN : Python Cookbook : Readable switch construction without lambdas or dictionaries

ASPN : Python Cookbook has a recipe for an alternative switch construct in Python.

Creates a class 'switch', and then the construct is

for case in switch(variable):
if case('a'):
appropriate action
break
if case('b'):
appropriate action
...

elif can be used instead of if and eliminates need for break, but the if construct also allows pass to be the appropriate action and this allows fall-through.