kj wrote:
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Here's a toy example illustrating what I mean. It's a simplification
of a real-life coding situation, in which I need to initialize a
"private" class variable by using a recursive helper function.
eh?
class Demo(object):
def fact(n):
if n < 2:
return 1
else:
return n * fact(n - 1)
_classvar = fact(5)
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Sorry still doesn't make sense, I'll give it a try though:
class Demo(object):
"""Apparently a 'real-life coding situation'"""
def __init__(self):
# Look at http://docs.python.org/tutorial/classes.html
# for init explanation.
self.__class_var = self.fact(5)
def fact(self, number):
"""Look at http://docs.python.org/tutorial/classes.html why you
need
self."""
if number < 2:
return(1)
else:
return_value = number * self.fact(number -1)
return(return_value)
TEST = Demo()
# Print the 'private' class variable
print(TEST._Demo__class_var)
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