"Rhodri James" <rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk> writes: > But do you, though? The only occasion I can think of that I'd want > the search to go past the instance is this "auto-initialisation", > and frankly I'd rather do that in an __init__ anyway. Perhaps > static methods or class methods work that way, I don't know how > the innards of the interpreter handle that. > > Is there any actual advantage to self.attribute picking up > Class.attribute instead of raising a NameError?
You use that any time you call an ordinary method using syntax like 'self.foo()'. -M- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
