On Jan 11, 6:42 pm, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@nospam.invalid> wrote: > Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> writes: > > If so, what is it that's so evil about conditionally-existent > > variables? (I'll leave the question open-ended this time.) > > I have found they make the code more confusing and bug prone. > It's better to define and document all the instance variables > in one place, in most cases.
That means all I have to do is add a stopgap value in __init__. I'm asking Chris why that is evidently not enough, and that I'd have to structure/design my code to avoid it. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list