A TYPICAL NEWBIE MISTAKE?

[Courageous]

Over the last few weeks, I've taken to creating
classes thusly:

class MyClass
	i=0
	f=3.1
	s="str"
	ll=[]

	def __init__(...)...


This has been an interesting experiment. While I
was aware that class variables in Python were "static"
until assigned, it took me until today to learn a bit
of a stinger of a lesson. To wit: append()ing to
a list or assigning to a dictionary does not count
as "assigned".

I spent quite a while this afternoon figuring this
out. This must be a fairly common error. The solution
is obvious. If you want to assign class variables as
commentary the way I do, make sure you assign everyone
in the __init__() method, ala:


class MyClass

	i=0
	f=3.1
	s="str"
	ll=[]

	def __init__()

		i=0
		f=3.1
		s="str"
		ll=[]

Albeit, now that I understand everything, this seems a
bit reduntant. :)-



C/