Recursive method

[Fredrik Lundh]

Ralph Gauges <ralph.gauges at eml.villa-bosch.de> wrote:
> You are absolutely right. So far I had some methods in my
> class and made the whole gui right inside the class
> definition. This must have created some problems with
> namespaces and 'self'. Now I moved the whole gui creation
> inside the __init__ method and now 'self' works.
> Now I have one more question: Why is there no 'self' right
> inside the class definition?

probably because there is no instance when the
class definition is executed...

("class" is a *statement*, not a declaration, and
is executed when the script is run.  see:
http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/class.html
for details.  "def" is also a statement, btw...)

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