class object's attribute is also the instance's attribute?

[陈伟]

在 2012年8月30日星期四UTC+8下午7时54分35秒，Dave Angel写道：
> On 08/30/2012 06:55 AM, 陈伟 wrote:
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> > when i write code like this:
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> >
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> > class A(object):
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> >      
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> >     d = 'it is a doc.'
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> >     
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> >
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> > t = A()
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> >
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> > print t.__class__.d
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> > print t.d
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> >
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> > the output is same.
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> >
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> > so it means class object's attribute is also the instance's attribute. is it right? i can not understand it.
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> In your example, you have no instance attribute.  So when you use the
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> syntax to fetch one, the interpreter looks first at the instance,
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> doesn't find it, then looks in the class, and does.  That is documented
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> behavior.  Some people use it to provide a kind of default value for
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> instances, which can be useful if most instances need the same value,
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> but a few want to overrride it.
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> DaveA
thank you very much.