how to change the class variable depending on the variable from the constructor?

Question

I want to change the class variable depending on the variable from the constructor.

In the case of the code below, I expect the console to show Yes but the result is No.

How could I change the variable by the constructor?

here is the code:

class MyClass:
    is_check = False

    def __init__(self, is_check):
        self.is_check = is_check

    if is_check:
        val = 'Yes'
    else:
        val = 'No'


print(MyClass(True).val)

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Python 3.8

Answer 1

There are two issues:

• The if..else block executes before any instance is created, so it could not possibly reflect a change to is_check

• When writing to a class attribute, you should not use self.is_check as assigning to that will create an instance attribute that just happens to have the same name.

For val you could create a property, so that it will always reflect the current value of the class attribute. In this case you can use self.is_check, but only if you don't make the mistake mentioned in the previous point

So:

class MyClass:
    is_check = False

    def __init__(self, is_check):
        MyClass.is_check = is_check

    @property
    def val(self):
        return 'Yes' if self.is_check else 'No'


print(MyClass(True).val)