How do these Java concepts translate to Python?

[Jeff Schwab]

Ray wrote:
> Devan L wrote:
> 
>>Fausto Arinos Barbuto wrote:
>>
>>>Ray wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>1. Where are the access specifiers? (public, protected, private)
>>>
>>>    AFAIK, there is not such a thing in Python.
>>>
>>>---Fausto
>>
>>Well, technically you can use _attribute to mangle it, but technically
>>speaking, there are no public, protected, or private things.
> 
> 
> OK, thanks. How about static members and instance members? Seems that
> in Python everything is class-wide?

You can define instance data in the __init__ method.

def __init__(self):
	self.instance_member = 0;