[Tutor] Strange list behaviour in classes
C M Caine
cmcaine at googlemail.com
Mon Feb 22 23:10:15 CET 2010
Or possibly strange list of object behaviour
IDLE 2.6.2
>>> class Player():
hand = []
>>> Colin = Player()
>>> Alex = Player()
>>>
>>> Players = [Colin, Alex]
>>>
>>> def hands():
for player in Players:
player.hand.append("A")
>>> hands()
>>>
>>> Colin.hand
['A', 'A']
>>> Alex.hand
['A', 'A']
I would have expected hand for each object to be simply ['A']. Why
does this not occur and how would I implement the behaviour I
expected/want?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Colin Caine
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