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# OpenLP - Open Source Lyrics Projection                                      #
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# Copyright (c) 2008-2010 Raoul Snyman                                        #
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# Gorven, Scott Guerrieri, Christian Richter, Maikel Stuivenberg, Martin      #
# Thompson, Jon Tibble, Carsten Tinggaard                                     #
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class BaseModel(object):
    """
    BaseModel provides a base object with a set of generic functions
    """

    @classmethod
    def populate(cls, **kwargs):
        """
        Creates an instance of a class and populates it, returning the instance
        """
        me = cls()
        keys = kwargs.keys()
        for key in keys:
            me.__setattr__(key, kwargs[key])
        return me