Bug in Python class static variable?

[Bruza]

On Jul 2, 3:52 am, Duncan Booth <duncan.bo... at invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Bruza <benr... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am trying to define a class static variable. But the value of the
> > static variable seems to be only defined inside the file that the
> > class is declared. See the code below. When I run "python w.py", I
> > got:
>
> When you run "python w.py" the *script* w.py is loaded as the module
> __main__. Importing a module called 'w' creates a new module which is
> unrelated to __main__. If you want access to variables defined in the main
> script then you need to import __main__.
>
> Don't use 'from module import *':
>
> The import statements are executed when the interpreter reaches them in the
> source. Even if you fix your code to import from __main__, the values you
> try to import from __main__ won't exist when the import statement executes:
> the first 'from a import *' will load and execute all of module 'a', but
> when that executes 'from __main__ import *' it just imports names defined
> in the main script *before* a was imported.
>
> In general, don't try to do this: put all your classes into modules and
> just put minimal startup code into a script.

Duncan,

Thanks for replying. However, I am still confused...
Even if I put "from __main__ import *" in both "a.py" and "w.py", I
still got
the same results. So, how should I re-structure my program to make the
class
static variable works???

Thanks,

Ben