Hello -- I'm a Java programmer who's slowly getting up to speed in Python. In general I try to initialize the state of my objects as late as possible, in the accessor. So if I have a member "_foo", my accessor is something like:
public FooType getFoo() { if (_foo == null) { // initialize _foo here } return _foo; } I'd like to do lazy initialization in Python as well: def getFoo(): try: return _foo except AttributeError: # initialize _foo here return _foo This seems a little clunky. Is there a more Pythonic way of looking at this? Thanks -- Bill. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list