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

[Gabriel Hasbun <gastomaster@xxxxxxxxx>]

I thought so, That is what got me so confused.

Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Gabriel Hasbun 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

The assignment is unnecessary. MySprite.image is already visible as
self.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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Lenard Lindstrom

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