How to pass a Troposphere object attribute conditionally?

I'm using Troposphere to build CloudFormation stacks and would like to pass the Elastic Load Balancer ConnectionSettings attribute only if it's set in my configuration, otherwise I don't want to specify it.

If I set it to default None then I get an error about the value not being of the expected type of troposphere.elasticloadbalancing.ConnectionSettings.

I'd rather try to avoid setting an explicit default in the call because it might override other settings.

Idealy, I would like to be able to add attributes to an existing object, e.g.:

lb = template.add_resource(elb.LoadBalancer(
  ...
))

if condition:
  lb.add_attribute(ConnectionSettings = elb.ConnectionSettings(
    ...
  ))

Is there a way to achieve that?

UPDATE: I achieved it using a hidden Troposphere method, which works but I'm not happy with:

if condition:
  lb.__setattr__('ConnectionSettings', elb.ConnectionSettings(
    ....
  ))

I'm still interested in a solution which doesn't involve using a private method from outside the module.

The main README eludes to just using the attribute names like this:

from troposphere import Template
import troposphere.elasticloadbalancing as elb

template = Template()
webelb = elb.LoadBalancer(
    'ElasticLoadBalancer',
    Listeners=[
        elb.Listener(
            LoadBalancerPort="80",
            InstancePort="80",
            Protocol="HTTP",
        ),
    ],
)

if True:
    webelb.ConnectionSettings = elb.ConnectionSettings(IdleTimeout=30)
elasticLB = template.add_resource(webelb)
print(template.to_json())