In article <bncf99366ドル$1 at sea.gmane.org>, "Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote: > > A, B, and C *are* instance variables. Why do you think they aren't? >> What? They are class attributes that live in the class dictionary, > not the instance dictionary. They are instance variables on the class object, which is an instance of type 'class'. -- David Eppstein http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/ Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science