class variables is shared across all instances in python? [duplicate]

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var should definitely not be shared as long as you access it by instance.var or self.var. With the list however, what your statement does is when the class gets evaluated, one list instance is created and bound to the class dict, hence all instances will have the same list. Whenever you set instance.list = somethingelse resp. self.list = somethingelse, it should get an instance level value.

Example time:

>>> class A():
...     var = 0
...     list = []
...
>>> a = A()
>>> b = A()
>>> a.var
0
>>> a.list
[]
>>> b.var
0
>>> b.list
[]
>>> a.var = 1
>>> b.var
0
>>> a.list.append('hello')
>>> b.list
['hello']
>>> b.list = ['newlist']
>>> a.list
['hello']
>>> b.list
['newlist']

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