Is a list static when it's a class member?

Antoine De Groote antoine at vo.lu
Tue Oct 10 14:42:32 EDT 2006


glue wrote:
> I have a class with a list member and the list seems to behave like
> it's static while other class members don't. The code...
> 
> class A:
>     name = ""
>     data = []
>     def __init__(self, name):
>         self.name = name
>     def append(self, info):
>         self.data.append(info)
>     def enum(self):
>         for x in self.data:
>             print "\t%s" % x
> 
> a = A("A:")
> print a.name
> a.append("one")
> a.append("two")
> a.enum()
> b = A("B:")
> print b.name
> b.append("horse")
> b.append("bear")
> b.enum()
> print a.name
> a.enum()
> 
> The output...
> A:
> 	one
> 	two
> B:
> 	one
> 	two
> 	horse
> 	bear
> A:
> 	one
> 	two
> 	horse
> 	bear
> 
> How do i get:
> A:
>         one
>         two
> B:
>         horse
>         bear
> A:
>         one
>         two
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> glue
> 


I can already tell you that this does it:

class A:
     name = ""
     def __init__(self, name):
         self.data = []
         self.name = name
     def append(self, info):
         self.data.append(info)
     def enum(self):
         for x in self.data:
             print "\t%s" % x

Somebody else can explain the reason. I just don't wanna write something 
that I'm not sure of. :-)

Regards,
antoine



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