class variables

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <38C8C4DA.24E63F4 at ALCATEL.de>,  <T.Rafie at ALCATEL.de> wrote:
>
>In C++ one can use static variables as class variables on which You
>have access from different instances of the class.  How can that be
>realized in Python?  Think for example on a singleton-class which
>should have only one instance.

Oleg answered your question; now I'm going to answer the question you
didn't ask (yet): while class variables in Python are reasonably
straightforward, there are no class *methods* in Python.  You need to
have an instance, access the class variables directly, or create a
module-level function.
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