How to pass a class variable as a default value in a static method in Python

Question

I want to pass a class variable as a default value to a static method. But when I import the class I get an error NameError: name \'MyClass\' is not defined

Answer 1

MyClass is not defined yet when Python wants to bind the default arguments, but x and y are already defined in the classes' scope.

In other words, you can write:

class MyClass:
    x = 100
    y = 200

    @staticmethod
    def foo(x=x, y=y):
        return x*y

Note that foo will not recognize reassignments to MyCLass.x and MyClass.y because the default arguments are bound once, when the function is created.

>>> MyClass.foo()
20000
>>> MyClass.x = 0
>>> MyClass.foo()
20000