That kind of code could make sense when you're using a very opinionated API, that is designed (for better or worse) with patterns in mind, such as Android. But, when you start bringing that style of coding outside of that environment...

Yuck.

I don't think you need to even explicity say he's used to Java.

Wow... I've never felt the need to the use the factory technique.

It won't work on py3 because map is a generator. Tell him to use list comprehensions:

  [setattr(self, x, kwargs[x]) for x in kwargs.keys()]

Though of course that is a bit too slow and he should do

  self.__dict__.update(**kwargs)

or for maximum correctness

  import os; os.remove(__file__)

At least they followed the snake_case name convention for method names (albeit getters) ;)