question about scope

John Salerno johnjsal at NOSPAMgmail.com
Sun Oct 1 12:48:14 EDT 2006


James Stroud wrote:

> This is because that list is an attribute of the class. Instances have a 
> reference of this class attribute, but it can be replaced by an 
> attribute of the instance with self (self is a reference to the instance 
> and not the class. This example might help:

Ah, I see! So within my create_menubar() method, would it better to 
refer to menu_items as DataAccessFrame.menu_items? Or does it not matter 
in this case, since I'm not reassigning it per instance?



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