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Op 09-07-13 19:03, L O'Shea schreef:
> Hi all,
> I'm interning and have been given the job of extending a program that
> has been written by someone else. I've never used Python before so it's
> a bit of a struggle but I've got to say I'm loving the language so far.
>
> In on of the scripts there is
>
> def set_usage(self,s):
>     self.usage_str = s
>
> Could anyone shed some light on this? I can't find mention of this
> anywhere in any Python documentation or anywhere else in the code
> where usage_str might be defined. Can you just create variables in
> that object by writing self.name = "david" self.hobby = "fishing"??

Yes you can.

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Antoon Pardon