[Tutor] Efficiency of Doxygen on Python vs C++?

[Kent Johnson]

Stephen McInerney wrote:

> I was asking if it's a recognized good programming practice to
> declare and initialize *all* members in the class defn.

What do you mean by "initialize *all* members in the class defn"? Your 
original example was not syntactically correct Python. You wrote:

class C
s = []
d = {}
ot = (None, None)

If by this you meant to define all the variables at class scope:

class C:
   s = []
   d = {}
   ot = (None, None)

then I would say emphatically no, this is not even common practice, let 
alone a recognized best practice.

If you mean to initialize the variables in the __init__() method:
class C:
   def __init__(self):
     self.s = []
     self.d = {}
     self.ot = (None, None)

maybe this is more common but I don't think I have ever seen it 
recommended to initialize all variables in the __init__() method. 
Certainly there are times when it makes sense to have some of the 
initialization in other methods that are called from __init__(). So if 
by "recognized good programming practice" you mean something like 
"commonly recommended" I would say no, it is not.

 > I think I'm hearing a general yes on that - any other opinions?

Not sure where you think you are hearing a yes, I am hearing a lot of 
objections.

Kent