Is my thinking Pythonic?

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Craig Allen a écrit :
> generally, I name the members in the Class definition and set them to
> None there...
> 
> class Car:

Unless you have a really good reason to use an antiquated and deprecated 
object model, use "new-style" classes (for a value of "new" being "now 
many years old"):

class Car(object):

>    speed = None
>    brand = None
> 
>    def __init__():
>       self.speed = defaultspeed #alternately, and more commonly, get
> this speed as a initializer argument
>       self.brand = defaultbrand
> 

Please dont. This is a useless repetition, a violation of the DRY 
principle, and a potential waste of time for the maintainer who will 
wonder what these class attributes are for.

> That solves the issue of being able to "see" all the members of an
> object by reading code...

Not even.

> however, this all goes out the window when
> composing an instance dynamically (i.e. metaclass type stuff).

No need for metaclasses here. Instances are *always* composed 
dynamically. While I agree that setting all attributes to a sensible 
default in the initializer is *usually* good style (even if it's 
technically useless and possibly error prone), duplicating them all as 
class attribute is at best a WTF (IMHO and all other disclaimers here...).