Ethan Furman added the comment: Nice work with the debugging. but what you have proved is that Python is behaving exactly as designed [0].
While true that the current implementation does have the pitfall you have discovered, removing it is not worth the cost in complexity. The proper "fix" is not to have __vars outside of a class. [0] [https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/classes.html#private-variables-and-class-local-references] ---------- resolution: not a bug -> rejected status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26044> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com