Scope and classes

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Chris Rebert a écrit :
(snip)
> To access class-level variables from within instance methods of the
> class, you have 2 options:
> A. Use the class name, i.e. Abc.message
> B. Reference the class indirectly, i.e. self.__class__.message

Or even simpler - *if* there's no synonym instance attribute:

=> self.message

Attribute lookup will try to resolve the attribute name on the class 
(and it's parent classes) if it's not found on the instance.