Python initialize multiple variables to the same initial value

Question

I have gone through these questions,

1. Python assigning multiple variables to same value? list behavior
   concerned with tuples, I want just variables may be a string, integer or dictionary
2. More elegant way of declaring multiple variables at the same time
   The question has something I want to ask, but the accepted answer is much complex

so what I'm trying to achieve,

I declare variables as follows, and I want to reduce these declarations to as less line of code as possible.

details = None product_base = None product_identity = None category_string = None store_id = None image_hash = None image_link_mask = None results = None abort = False data = {} 

What is the simplest, easy to maintain ?

Answer 1

I agree with the other answers but would like to explain the important point here.

None object is singleton object. How many times you assign None object to a variable, same object is used. So

x = None y = None 

is equal to

x = y = None 

but you should not do the same thing with any other object in python. For example,

x = {}  # each time a dict object is created y = {} 

is not equal to

x = y = {}  # same dict object assigned to x ,y. We should not do this.