Hope this hasn't been posted hundreds of times. I have never seen it before, but could have missed it.
For years it has been a slight annoyance that every time I wanted to test a snippet of code from a class by running it in the interactive interpreter, I had to remove all of the self. instances from the code. After I got it working correctly, I had to put all the self.'s back into the code to put it back into my class. The other day my brain had a functional synapse and I realized I could just start my interactive session with: >>> class dummy: >>> def __init__(self): >>> pass >>> self=dummy() I could then just set up my test variables something like: >>> self.x='Hello' >>> self.y='World' And I could then use class type code such as: >>> print self.x, self.y I no longer had to remove and then replace all of the self. notation from my code snippets. So far I haven't seen why I shouldn't to this. I haven't had any problems using it, but I haven't used it that much. If there is a good reason to NOT do it, let me know. Otherwise I hope this helps anyone who has been annoyed by the same thing. Thanks, -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
