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Recursive method

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Wed Jul 14 11:44:14 EDT 1999 
Ralph Gauges <ralph.gauges at eml.villa-bosch.de> wrote:
> > probably because there is no instance when the
> > class definition is executed...
> > 
> > ("class" is a *statement*, not a declaration, and
> > is executed when the script is run.  see:
> > http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/class.html
> > for details.  "def" is also a statement, btw...)
> > 
> > </F>
> 
> This sounds right, but when I have a class that pops up a
> gui on my screen, as I do now, it doesn't seem to make much
> difference, wether I build the gui right in the class
> definition or in the __init__ method. Both is executed when
> I make an Instance

nope.  try running this script to see
what's going on:

...

class Foo:
    print "this is executed when the class statement is executed"
    def __init__(self):
        print "this is executed when a new instance is created"

foo = Foo()

...

next, try removing the "foo = Foo()" line
and run it again.

finally, try adding multiple copies of
"foo = Foo()" and run it.

get it?

</F>
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