Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:eRwpi.36813$G23.28496 @newsreading01.news.tds.net:
> On 2007-07-25, Alex Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As a matter of style, how do you figure out that class_list is >> a class attribute and not an instance attribute? (I don't >> remember seeing anything in the PEP describing the coding >> style). > > Check out dir(MyClass) and dir(MyClass()) for some insight, if it > turns out that it matters. I must confess that I am a bit confused by this advise, as both are returning exactly the same thing. > Preferably, the user of a class > doesn't have to really think about it much. > I know that this would be prefered, but in case you are getting 3rd party code and you modify a class attribute without knowing it is a class attribute then you may get into trouble (indeed the real problem is with the designer of the 3rd party code, but still I think it is a valid concern). tia, ./alex -- .w( the_mindstorm )p. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
