Python class and variable issue(newby question!)
Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Fri Mar 29 18:51:15 EDT 2013
On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 08:24:00 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Sam Berry <sambez_14 at hotmail.co.uk>
> wrote:
>> class test()
>> s = 1
>>
>> def test1()
>> global s
>> s = 2
> That's not a global, that's a class variable.
/me thwacks Chris with a halibut.
Not only is "class variable" ambiguous, but Python uses different scoping
rules for "variables" (name bindings) and attributes.
I don't know what language first decided to conflate object attributes
and variables -- I suspect Java -- but it is actively harmful terminology
(in Python at least, if not in general) and whoever invented it is bad
and should feel bad.
--
Steven
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