>>>>> Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> (SD) wrote:
>SD> On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:48:55 +0200, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >>> No, because you are creating *classvariables* when declaring things like >>> this: >SD> ... >>> OTOH, when assigning to an instance, this will create an >>> *instance*-variable. Which is what >SD> If an integer variable is an integer, and a string variable is a string, >SD> and float variable is a float, and a list variable is a list (there's a >SD> pattern here), shouldn't a class variable be a class and an instance >SD> variable be an instance? If a wooden bench is made of wood, what is a garden bench made of? >SD> I had never noticed the usage of "variable" to mean attribute until a few >SD> months ago. What's going on? Why did people decide that confusing >SD> variables and attributes of variables was a good thing? What's next, >SD> describing dictionary keys as "dictionary variables"? If you google for '"instance variable" python' you get quite a number of hits, not only recent ones. Albeit two orders of magnitude fewer than for 'attribute python'. -- Piet van Oostrum <p...@cs.uu.nl> URL: http://pietvanoostrum.com [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] Private email: p...@vanoostrum.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
