Cookbook idea - single-shot __init__

[Ben Finney]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 19:15:23 -0600, Bob Gailer wrote:
> I have at times had the need to initialize some things once at the
> class level

In Python 2.2 (earlier?) you can define any attribute at the class
level, and it will be shared by all instances:

    class Foo( object ):
        grumble = 0.1
        flibble = {}
        def __init__( self ):
            ''' Instance initialisation '''
            return

This causes the attributes 'grumble', 'flibble', and '__init__()' to be
shared by all Foo instances; anything done within __init__() will affect
the individual instance only.

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