Setting a Global Default for class construction?

[Josh English]

Lao Coon wrote:
> Josh English <english at spiritone.com> wrote in 
> news:b1erj009ok at enews3.newsguy.com:
> 
> 
>>Here is the code that I am struggling with in a Python module:
>>
>>_Thing = "it"
>>
>>def SetThing(s):
>>     global _Thing
>>     _Thing = str(s)
>>
>>class NewThing:
>>     def __init__(self,thing=_Thing):
>>          self.Thing = _Thing
> 
> 
> Here you're always setting self.Thing to "it"
> you want "self.Thing = thing"..
Oops. The real code does have the equivalent of self.Thing = thing. 
Sorry about that.

Josh English
english at spiritone.com