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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def update_args(self, args):
 """Update from command line args. """

        for cfg in args:
            keys, v = cfg.split('=', maxsplit=1)
            keylist = keys.split('.')

            dic = self
            for i, k in enumerate(keylist[:-1]):
                assert k in dir(dic), "Unknown config key: {}".format(keys)
                dic = getattr(dic, k)
            key = keylist[-1]

            oldv = getattr(dic, key)
            if not isinstance(oldv, str):
                v = eval(v)
            setattr(dic, key, v)