Accessing class-level variables

[Gerhard Häring]

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
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