Class Variable Inheritance

[Jeremy Bowers]

On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 16:49:34 -0900, Brian "bojo" Jones wrote:
> class a(object):
> 
> 	def __init__(self):
> 		self.map = mapper()
> 		print 'called a'

What is the advantage of this over

def __init__(self):
	self.map = []

?