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Re: Question re class variable

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On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 14:17:35 +0300, Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> declaimed the
following:

>That much is clear but why does his other version of __gen_id() work
>(after a fashion)? It doesn't increment the class variable but the
>instances get an incremental id.
>
>The function was like this:
>
>    def __gen_id(self):
>        ty = self.__class__.__name__
>        id = ''
>        while id in self.__instance_registry:
>            id = '%s_%d' % (ty, self.__instance_counter)
>            self.__instance_counter += 1
>        self.__instance_registry[id] = self
>        return id
>

	They get an incremental ID because he constantly searches the
class-wide "instance registry" for the duplicate values -- which are always
being generated since the counter starts at 0 (+1) for each instance...
Would get quite slow if enough instances were to be created... While the
registry was initialized with

    # __instance_registry = {"":None}

Preloaded with a dummy value just so the first pass of the "while" loop
wouldn't drop out.

	Whereas the counter is a rebinding into a local, the registry is a
mutation of the classwide value, not a rebinding -- so it IS shared among
all.
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
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    Re: Question re class variable John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2015-09-29 14:44 +0000
      Re: Question re class variable Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-09-29 20:41 -0400
  Re: Question re class variable Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-09-29 12:40 +0200
    Re: Question re class variable Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2015-09-29 14:17 +0300
      Re: Question re class variable Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-09-29 14:02 +0200
      Re: Question re class variable Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-09-29 22:06 +1000
      Re: Question re class variable Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-09-29 08:21 -0400
  Re: Question re class variable jmp <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2015-09-29 13:02 +0200
  Re: Question re class variable jmp <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2015-09-29 13:11 +0200

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