attributes of Python classes
Yermat
loic at fejoz.net
Thu Mar 18 09:46:19 EST 2004
Terry Reedy a écrit :
>>>I agree that initializing all attributes in __init__ is a good idea.
>>>Even if you initialize them to None and overwrite them in some other
>>>method before ever accessing the value, it's still a nice way to help
>>>soem future reader understand your class better. If it's a good idea
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> to
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>>>have self-documenting code, I guess it's an even better idea to have
>>>executable comments :-)
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> An alternative is to give attributes a default value of None as class
> attributes. This avoid time and space overhead of doing same on per
> instance basis. Instances only need instance-specific value when there is
> one.
>
> class C:
> a = None # what a is
> b = None # what b is
>
> Terry J. Reedy
Ya right but then the documentation will not be very clear. I was
thinking of two version of my class. Let say A that does not initialize
its variable because it will be done later by the file reader. And B
that inherit A and initialize instance variables.
In the documentation it will be easier to understand which one to use.
Just ideas...
Yermat
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