can a method access/set another's variables?

[wswilson]

On Apr 2, 1:04 am, a... at mac.com (Alex Martelli) wrote:
> asdf1234234 <wswil... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > My code is:
> > -a.py-
> > import b
>
> > class A:
> >      def __init__(self):
> >           pass
>
> Incidentally, these last two lines are totally, utterly useless.  Do NOT
> define special methods like this -- just omit the whole def statement
> and you'll have identical semantics, no wasted boilerplate, even better
> performance.
>
> Alex

I know they're useless. I was using the init method before and just
replaced what I had with pass instead of deleting it because I
expected to use it again later. Thanks for the tip, though.