>Well, from the looks of things, you don't seem to understand the >basic idea of instances and instance attributes. There is a key >difference between SC_ISO_67816.__m_loaded and self.SW1_DICT, >and that is that the former one is seen by *all instances*, while >the latter is an attribute in *only a single instance*.
Sorry for the tabs ! Indeed I had not grasped the concept has from my many years in C++, I would have had to use a private constructor + a static create method to keep users from instanciating more than one object. You are correct, my __Load method "loads" self.DICTIONNARIES. So now my understanding is that __Load needs to load SC_ISO_7816.DICTIONNARIES, and children classes will have to refer to SC_ISO_7816.DICTIONNARIES if they want to see something. I'll give it a shot right now. Thank you! Philippe -- ********************* Philippe C. Martin SnakeCard LLC www.snakecard.com ********************* -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list