Confounded by Python objects

[alex23]

On Jul 24, 7:45 pm, "boblat... at googlemail.com"
<boblat... at googlemail.com> wrote:
> class Channel:
>     name = ''
>     sample = []
>
>     def __init__(self, name):
>         self.name = name
>
>     def append(self, time, value):
>         self.sample.append((time, value))
>         self.diag()
>
>     def diag(self):
>         print (self.name, self.sample)

Okay, the problem is you're appending to a _class_ attribute, not to
an instance attribute.

If you change your class definition to this, it should work:

class Channel:
    def __init__(self, name):
        self.name = name
        self.sample = []

That will provide each instance with its own version of the sample
attribute.

The 'self.name = name' in the __init__ for your original code binds a
new attribute to the instance, whereas 'self.sample.append(...' in the
class's append was appending to the class attribute instead.

Hope this helps.

- alex23