Russ wrote: > I would like to let the user of one of my classes "configure" it by > activating or de-activating a particular behavior (for all instances of > the class). > > One way to do this, I figured, is to have a static class variable, > along with a method to set the variable. However, I am stumped as to > how to do that in python. Suggestions welcome. > > The next best thing, I figure, is to just use a global variable. > Several "methods" of the class then check the value of the global > variable to determine what to do. The user can then just set the > variable to get the desired behavior. > > However, I tried this and it does not seem to work. I imported the > class, then set the global variable. But the new value of the variable > somehow did not get back into the class methods that need to see it. > > Can anyone give me a clue about this? If there is a better way, please > let me know. Thanks. >
py> class C: ... doit = 2 ... py> C.doit 2 py> a = C() py> b = C() py> c = C() py> a.doit, b.doit, c.doit (2, 2, 2) py> C.doit = 5 py> a.doit, b.doit, c.doit (5, 5, 5) py> b.doit = 13 py> a.doit, b.doit, c.doit (5, 13, 5) James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
