Trying to understand Python objects

[Robert Kern]

Ben Finney wrote:
> Or, the attributes are added to a specific instance (often in the
> initialisation method) so that each instance has a separate attribute
> with the same name::
> 
>     class Point(object):
>         spam = 4
>         def __init__(self):
>             eggs = 2

There's a typo there. For the sake of not confusing the OP, this is correct:

class Point(object):
    spam = 4
    def __init__(self):
        self.eggs = 2


-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco