How to 'declare' class attributes?

[Rainer Deyke]

"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:9eoq8d0i27 at enews2.newsguy.com...
> """
> 1.- to 'declare' (I mean, bind) all of them in the class
> definition:
>
> class foo:
> bar= None
> baz= 1
> fubar= None
> """
> """
> 2.- to bind them in __init__:
>
> class foo:
> def __init__(self):
> self.bar= ...
> self.baz= ...
> self.fubar= ...
> """
> Solutions 1 and 2 address completely different problems, so
> how can they be better/worse than each other...?

No they don't.  So long as the attributes are not mutable objects, they can
both solve the same problem.  Consider:

class Counter0:
  count = 0
  def __call__(self):
    self.count = self.count + 1
    return self.count

class Counter1:
  def __init__(self):
    self.count = 0
  def __call__(self):
    self.count = self.count + 1
    return self.count

An instance of class 'Counter0' is identical in external behavior to an
instance of 'Counter1'.


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