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diff --git a/Python/pywarpx/Bucket.py b/Python/pywarpx/Bucket.py
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+
+class Bucket(object):
+    """
+    The purpose of this class is to be a named bucket for holding attributes.
+    This attributes will be concatenated into a string and passed into argv during initialization.
+    """
+    def __init__(self, instancename):
+        self._localsetattr('instancename', instancename)
+        self._localsetattr('argvattrs', [])
+
+    def _localsetattr(self, name, value):
+        object.__setattr__(self, name, value)
+
+    def __setattr__(self, name, value):
+        self.argvattrs.append(name)
+        #self.__dict__[name] = value
+        object.__setattr__(self, name, value)
+
+    def attrlist(self):
+        "Concatenate the attributes into a string"
+        result = []
+        for attr in self.argvattrs:
+            attrstring = '{0}.{1}={2} '.format(self.instancename, attr, getattr(self, attr))
+            result += [attrstring]
+        return result
+