On Dec 9, 3:36 pm, Matimus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 8, 8:08 pm, Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've got a class with a class variable: > > > class Foo: > > _map = {} > > > How do I make sure this only gets initialized the *first* time the > > module containing the class is imported? What appears to be happening > > as it stands is each time the module gets imported, Foo._map get re- > > initialized. > > Unless you are calling reload() on the module, it will only ever get > _loaded_ once. Each additional import will just yield the existing > module. Perhaps if you post an example of the behavior that leads you > to believe that the class variables are getting reinitialized
and change it to class Foo(object): because we care little about old-style classes these days and put a print statement in the module just before the class statement and print statements before and after each import statement so that we can see what is happening. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list