Sigh, I'm using Google Groups and it seems I can't see my original post and everyone's replies. I'm really keen to reply back, so I'll just re-post my follow up for now and make sure I don't make a habit of this. (I'll get a news reader) Here goes:
I agree, I'm C# and Java influenced, but I've got some messy Perl experience too. It was late when I posted my example, so I don't think I made my question clear enough. I want to be able to construct a class level class variable, so its global to the class, then reference it from a class method. I wrote a web server that uses reflection to dynamically load modules which are mapped to url paths. e.g. module "search.py" maps to "search.html", etc... It all works great, but I want my modules to be able to __init__ classes that belong to the module, then when a request comes in and is passed to the module, I can reference that initialized class. The declaration of a class level nestedClass class variable is wrong, but I was hoping someone could just say, "dummy, this is how to declare a class variable when you can't construct it just yet", or "you have to construct an empty version of nestedClass at the class level, then just re-construct it with any parameters during __init__". class module: nestedClass def __init__(): self.nestedClass = nested(10) print self.nestedClass.nestedVar def getNestedVar(self): return self.nestedClass.nestedVar class nested(): nestedVar = 1 def __init__(self, value): nestedVar = value print "Initialized..." Thanks and sorry for double posting, it won't happen again. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list