[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At first, I thought that self.jerk was resolving to the class attribute > instead of creating a new variable (w/ a differing scope).
When you access an instance attribute, Python first looks in the instance object, and then in the class object. When you assign to an instance attribute, it's *always* assigned to the instance object, whether there's a class attribute with the same name or not. If there's already a class attribute with the same name, that attribute will be shadowed (but can still be accessed via the class object, of course). > It doesn't work this way on my laptop... Python's always worked that way, so I find that a bit hard to believe. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
