initializing mutable class attributes

[David Bolen]

"Dan Perl" <dperl at rogers.com> writes:

> After all this discussion, what do people think about this code?

On face value, I'd question why you're going through the extra effort.
I may be missing the point in such a small example, but just having an
__init__ in the base class that subclasses are supposed to call seems
simpler.

If you're just trying to find some way to have default attributes that can
be used from subclasses without calling __init__, I'd probably just use
class level definitions.  For example:

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Python 2.3.4 (#53, May 25 2004, 21:17:02) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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>>> class Test(object):
...     attr1 = 666
... 
>>> class Derived(Test):
...     def __init__(self):
...         self.attr2 = 111
... 
>>> d = Derived()
>>> print d.attr1, d.attr2
666 111
>>> print isinstance(d, Test)
True
>>> 
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-- David