"Thanos Panousis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > data. Say for each person object, I need an object variable called > "hairColor". This haircolor variable has to be filled through an SQL > query, so the object must have some way to access a database cursor. > The cool thing would be that all person objects use the same > connection/cursor to get their haircolors filled in, so there would > be > only one connection to the SQL server. > > Could this done with a class variable? From what I understand, it > fits nice because its available to all objects of the class,
Absolutely and that would be a good choice provided you don't need connections/cursors from each class to the same database. If that's the case you may prefer to create the connection globally and pass a reference into your classes via init. Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
