I'm quite familiar with python but I don't know much about the "pythonic" way of doing things and I would like to learn. At first I was trying to create two different constructors and I got to the option of using **kwargs where you do different things depending on what attribute you pass (or don't pass) to the constructor.
The problem I'm facing now is that it doesn't matter how I call the constructor, it always returns a copy of the first object I created.
Here is a sample code:
class MyClass():
items = []
def __init__(self, **kwargs):
if 'fill' in kwargs:
print('putting something in your class')
self.items.append('something')
filled = MyClass(fill=True)
empty = MyClass()
another_filled = MyClass(fill=True)
another_empty = MyClass(anything=80)
print(filled)
print(empty)
print(another_filled)
print(another_empty)
print(filled.items)
print(empty.items)
print(another_filled.items)
print(another_empty.items)
And the exit:
putting something in your class
putting something in your class
<__main__.MyClass object at 0xb71b9b4c>
<__main__.MyClass object at 0xb71b9c0c>
<__main__.MyClass object at 0xb71b9c2c>
<__main__.MyClass object at 0xb71b9ccc>
['something', 'something']
['something', 'something']
['something', 'something']
['something', 'something']
I feel I'm missing something really stupid. Help, please.
