Accessing class-level variables

[Philip Swartzleonard]

Gerhard =?iso-8859-15?Q?H=E4ring?= || Tue 23 Apr 2002 09:04:04p:

> 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()
> 
> Gerhard

Well, i knew this worked for dispatching __init__'s, but... well here 
=):

Python 2.2.1 (#34, Apr  9 2002, 19:34:33) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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>>> class A:
	d = 5

>>> class B:
	def p(self):
		print A.d

>>> z = B()
>>> z.p()
5
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