On Apr 9, 3:26 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm currently using code similar to this: > > class ClassWithInitialization(type): > def __init__(cls, name, bases, dict): > type.__init__(name, bases, dict) > dict['__class_init__'](cls) > > class A: > __metaclass__ = ClassWithInitialization > > def __class_init__(cls): > cls.some_attribute = ... > ... > > in order to get class attributes initialized (since the values of > these attributes > need non trivial work to be computed, putting the code that does that > computation in the class scope ends up with the class having extra > attributes---the `local' variables used in the computation of the > values of class attribute; so I'm using __class_init__'s scope to > contain those variables) > > I was wondering: is there a simpler approach to this?
You could put the computations right in the class, and del the extra variables when done. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list