Class static variables

[Alex Martelli]

"Guillaume" <forums at memoire.com> wrote in message
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>
> Axel understood perfectly the goal of my question and the way I would

I think you mean me (Alex) rather than Axel, but, anyway:


> First I used constructs like if name=="x": but in fact the use of try:
> makes it more general (no need to know the attribute name). Inheritance
    [snip]
> try:
> A.__dict__[name]
> A.__dict__[name]=value
> return None
> except KeyError:
> self.__dict__[name]=value

I think that just as general, and probably better, might be:

    if A.__dict__.has_key(name):
        A.__dict__[name]=value
    else:
        self.__dict__[name]=value

It appears to me that this expresses more directly the intent:
if the class's dictionary already has this name as a key, then
set it to the new value, else, set the instance's dictionary.


Alex