python类是如何工作的?

我有一个来自boto框架的代码文件粘贴在下面,所有的打印语句都是我的,注释掉的那一行也是我的,其他的都属于作者。

我的问题是,在python中实例化类时,实例化和分配的顺序是什么?下面作者的代码假设在创建类的实例时会存在“DefaultDomainName”(例如,调用了__init__()),但情况似乎并非如此,至少在我在OS X上用python 2.5进行的测试中是如此。

有人能帮我解释一下这里发生了什么吗。我们将不胜感激。非常感谢。

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import boto
from boto.utils import find_class

class Manager(object):

    DefaultDomainName = boto.config.get('Persist', 'default_domain', None)

    def __init__(self, domain_name=None, aws_access_key_id=None, aws_secret_access_key=None, debug=0):
        self.domain_name = domain_name
        self.aws_access_key_id = aws_access_key_id
        self.aws_secret_access_key = aws_secret_access_key
        self.domain = None
        self.sdb = None
        self.s3 = None
        if not self.domain_name:
            print "1: %s" % self.DefaultDomainName
            print "2: %s" % Manager.DefaultDomainName
            self.domain_name = self.DefaultDomainName
            #self.domain_name = 'test_domain'
            if self.domain_name:
                boto.log.info('No SimpleDB domain set, using default_domain: %s' % self.domain_name)
            else:
                boto.log.warning('No SimpleDB domain set, persistance is disabled')
        if self.domain_name:
            self.sdb = boto.connect_sdb(aws_access_key_id=self.aws_access_key_id,
                                        aws_secret_access_key=self.aws_secret_access_key,
                                        debug=debug)
            self.domain = self.sdb.lookup(self.domain_name)
            if not self.domain:
                self.domain = self.sdb.create_domain(self.domain_name)

    def get_s3_connection(self):
        if not self.s3:
            self.s3 = boto.connect_s3(self.aws_access_key_id, self.aws_secret_access_key)
        return self.s3

def get_manager(domain_name=None, aws_access_key_id=None, aws_secret_access_key=None, debug=0):
    return Manager(domain_name, aws_access_key_id, aws_secret_access_key, debug=debug)

def set_domain(domain_name):
    print "3: %s" % Manager.DefaultDomainName
    Manager.DefaultDomainName = domain_name
    print "4: %s" % Manager.DefaultDomainName

def get_domain():
    return Manager.DefaultDomainName

def revive_object_from_id(id, manager):
    if not manager.domain:
        return None
    attrs = manager.domain.get_attributes(id, ['__module__', '__type__', '__lineage__'])
    try:
        cls = find_class(attrs['__module__'], attrs['__type__'])
        return cls(id, manager=manager)
    except ImportError:
        return None

def object_lister(cls, query_lister, manager):
    for item in query_lister:
        if cls:
            yield cls(item.name)
        else:
            o = revive_object_from_id(item.name, manager)
            if o:
                yield o