Pythonic way to handle/spread alerts class in multiple modules

[metulburr]

But when I import and instantiate the class, lists are empty.

It does work as intended for me.

class Borg:
    shared_state = {}

    def __init__(self):
        self.__dict__ = self.shared_state
        self.state = 'Init'

usage:

>>> from test11 import Borg
>>> borg1 = Borg()
>>> borg2 = Borg()
>>> borg1.state
'Init'
>>> borg2.state
'Init'
>>> borg1.state = 'test'
>>> borg1.state
'test'
>>> borg2.state
'test'

If done this way i would definitely make the variable name obvious that it is shared to avoid thinking it is an instance attribute independent from other instances.

I usually call Borg.shared_state directly when changing or referring to any class attribute. Im not sure which is more pythonic to be honest.