title: Python initialize multiple variables to the same initial value
body: <p>I have gone through these questions,</p>
  <blockquote>
  <ol>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16348815/python-assigning-multiple-variables-to-same-value-list-behavior">Python assigning multiple variables to same value? list behavior</a>
  <br><em>concerned with tuples, I want just variables may be a string, integer or dictionary</em></li>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5495332/more-elegant-way-of-declaring-multiple-variables-at-the-same-time">More elegant way of declaring multiple variables at the same time</a>
  <br> <em>The question has something I want to ask, but the accepted answer is much complex</em></li>
  </ol>
  </blockquote>
  <p>so what I'm trying to achieve,</p>
  <p>I declare variables as follows, and I want to reduce these declarations to as less line of code as possible.</p>
  <pre><code>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 = {}
  </code></pre>
  <p>What is the simplest, easy to maintain ?</p>