initializing mutable class attributes

[Alex Martelli]

Dan Perl <dperl at rogers.com> wrote:

> My mistake.  You're right, and it's all because of the inheritance from
> 'object', which probably defines a default, empty, __init__.  I haven't made
> a habit of subclassing from 'object' yet and I see that I'll have to do
> that.  Thanks.

If you define several parent-less classes in a module, it may be simpler
to place at the module's start the assignment statement:

    __metaclass__ = type

This is equivalent to explicitly specifying object as the base class of
any otherwise parent-less class.


Alex