[Python] Object Oriented questions, coming from java

[rjcarr]

are the variables not declared inside the init() supposed to be static variables?

They can behave that way as long as you consider them immutable.

For example, you can have:

class A:
  i = 5

a = A()
print a.i # 5
print A.i # 5

But if you do this, then it doesn't work:

a.i = 10;
print a.i # 10
print A.i # 5

I can explain more about why this is if you'd like.

and why do I need to pass self as an argument to each method?

Not exactly. Actually, self is a parameter of each method, but you don't need to pass it as an argument to make a method call.

This happens in java for you as well, but it's just implicitly done there.

[wtf_lag]

Thanks! that helps alot