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

["René Dudfield" <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>]

yeah, similar to static variables.

They are shared between all instances of that class.



On Dec 12, 2007 12:00 PM, Gabriel Hasbun <gastomaster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
>