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pythonclassrecursion
Sarato
Sarato

Reputation: 185

Can you reference a class inside of itself in Python?

If I have classes A and B, I basically want to do something like this:

class A:
    myDict = {A: 3, B: 2}

Since my reference isn't in a function, the class hasn't fully loaded by the time I try to use it. How can I get around this?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1076

Answers (1)

SingleNegationElimination
SingleNegationElimination

Reputation: 156158

The proper solution is to move the dict outside the class

class A:
    pass

A.mydict = {A: 3, B: 2}

which will result in exactly the values you would get if you could do what you ask for.

Upvotes: 5

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