Accessing class-level variables
Bengt Richter
bokr at oz.net
Wed Apr 24 13:24:14 EDT 2002
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 06:04:04 +0200, Gerhard =?iso-8859-15?Q?H=E4ring?= <gh_pythonlist at gmx.de> wrote:
>I'm trying to access a class variable in a derived class. I sincerly
>hope there's a less kludgy way than what I'm currently using:
>
>class X:
> a = 5
>
>class Y(X):
> def p(self):
> print self.__class__.a
>
>Y().p()
>
Unless a is shadowed, seems like this would work,
or am I missing something?
>>> class X:
... a = 5
...
>>> class Y(X):
... def p(self):
... print self.a
...
>>> Y().p()
5
>>> import sys; sys.version
'2.2 (#28, Dec 21 2001, 12:21:22) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)]'
Regards,
Bengt Richter
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