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Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 06:24:45 -0500
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On 06/18/2011 05:55 AM, bruno.desthuilliers@gmail.com wrote:
> On 18 juin, 06:17, John Salerno<johnj...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> class Character:
>>
>>      base_health = 50
>>      base_resource = 10
>>
>>      def __init__(self, name):
>>          self.name = name
>>          self.health = base_health
>>          self.resource = base_resource
>
> Did you at least tried this one ? Hint: it won't work.

If you want it, you can use

   self.health = Character.base_health

Though I'd treat them as semi-constants and capitalize them like 
your 3rd case:

   class Character(object):
     BASE_HEALTH = 50
     ...
     def __init__(...):
       ...
       self.health = Character.BASE_HEALTH

-tkc