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Python Object-Oriented Python Instant Objects Let's Make a Class!

Posted by Hanna Han
Hanna Han
4,105 Points

Differences between Thief().sneaky and Thief.sneaky

Hi,

I wonder what differences are between Thief().sneaky and Thief.sneaky without creating(having) an instance of the class, Thief? Becuase I have got same result with "True" when I run the code in my consol.

I have tired like in the code:

class Thief:
     sneaky = True

In my consol:

from characters import Thief
Thief().sneaky = True
Thief.sneaky = True

1 Answer

Tyler B
Tyler B
5,787 Points
Tyler B
Tyler B
5,787 Points

This is kind of a hard question to answer without devolving into talking in circles but I'll give it a shot. When you are calling Thief.sneaky you are calling the static reference to the constructed class where as when you call Thief().sneaky you are creating an Anonymous instance of the class. Consider the following examples

Thief().sneaky = False
print(Thief().sneaky)
print(Thief.sneaky)

True
True

Vs.

Thief.sneaky = False
print(Thief().sneaky)
print(Thief.sneaky)

False
False