Éric Daigneault wrote:
>Got a question for you all...
>>I noticed a behaviour in python class creation that is strange, to say the
>least.
>>When creating a class with data members but no __init__ method. Python deals
>differently with data members that are muatable and immutables.
>>Ex:
>class A(object):
> stringData = "Whatever"
> listData = []
>>instance = A()
>>Will have data members instantiated as expected (instance.stringData ==
>"Whatever" and instance.listData == [])
>>instance.listData.append("SomeString")
>instance.stringData = "Changed"
>>Now if I do
>>secondInstance = A()
>>it will come with the listData containing the SomeString appended to the
>instance...
>>this is clearly not normal
>>Especially that the stringData of Second instance contains the "Whatever" text.
>If the behaviour was at least consistant... but it is not...
>>Am I coing nuts or is this by desing, if so it is very misleading... The two
>instances are sharing the same list, but not the same string ... I did not
>declare the list to be static in any way.... Why does it behave like this ?
>>Éric
This is not what I get :
Here is the code and the output for 2.5
class A(object):
stringData = "Whatever"
listData = []
inst = A()
print inst.stringData
print inst.listData
print
inst.listData.append("SomeString")
inst.stringData = "Changed"
inst2 = A()
print inst2.stringData
print inst2.listData
print
inst.listData.append("NewThing")
inst.stringData = "NewChanged"
print inst.stringData
print inst.listData
print inst.stringData
print inst.listData
print
-----
Whatever
[]
Whatever
['SomeString']
NewChanged
['SomeString', 'NewThing']
NewChanged
['SomeString', 'NewThing']
Isn't this what you got?
-Chetan
