[pygame] piman's tutorial.Class variable usage.

[Gabriel Hasbun <gastomaster@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

The piman's tutorial on sprites:

http://kai.vm.bytemark.co.uk/~piman/writing/sprite-tutorial.shtml

class MySprite(pygame.sprite.Sprite):
    image = None

    def __init__(self):
        pygame.sprite.Sprite.__init__(self)

        if MySprite.image is None:
            # This is the first time this class has been instantiated.
            # So, load the image for this and all subsequence instances.
            MySprite.image = pygame.image.load("image.png")

        self.image = MySprite.image
Refers to MySprite.image , as variable common to all instances, I guess, somewhat a static member in C++, Am I right?

This is more of a python question, I went through the docs but found nothing related.

Thanks in advance.

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