On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Xavier Ho <cont...@xavierho.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Robert Somerville > <rsomervi...@sjgeophysics.com> wrote: >> >> class ctest(): >> x = int >> y = [1,2,3] > > Variables defined directly under the class are known as "static variables" > in many other languages. Here in Python it's called a class variable, but > they're still the same concept. > > What you want is "instance variables", which are not shared by the class > instances, but different depending on each instance instead. That said, > > class ctest(): > def __init__(self): > self.x = int
Additionally, `self.x = int` might not do what you thought it does. It does *not* create a new instance variable of type 'int'. Instead, it literally assigns to a new instance variable x the *function*† that converts values into integers. Cheers, Chris -- † This isn't entirely accurate; I'm oversimplifying for ease of understanding. http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
