> I'm not sure what language you've dealt with before, but if it was Java or > C++, then you've run into Python's variant of static members. > > class X(object): > classMember = True > > def __init__(self): > self.instanceMember = True > > > Does that make it any clearer? As to the why, I'd ask Guido Van Rossum. ;)
Its a standard feature of the Object Model of programming. Virtally all OOP systems provide a mechanism for setting class level attributes. Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
