Steven Bethard wrote: > But why do you want a class level attribute with the same name as an > instance level attribute? I would have written your class as: > > class A(object): > __slots__ = ['value'] > def __init__(self, value=1): > self.value = value > > where the default value you put in the class is simply expressed as a > default value to the __init__ parameter.
Thanks for your explanation. The reason why I was doing it was to have class-level defaults, so that one can easily adjust how new instances will be made. I'm doing it now with capitilized class attribute names to avoid the name clash. -- -- Ewald -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
