Question

I’ve been looking at the following code and have a question about what it means. The package overall has the classes: Segment, Cell, Column, Region, and SegmentUpdateInfo.
The code in question is the last line. Thanks in advance!

class SegmentUpdateInfo(object):
    def __init__(self, cell, segment, activeSynapses, addNewSynapses=False):
        #Constructor parameter initialization...

        region = self.cell.column.region #What does this mean and why would someone use 
                                         #it?          

Answer 1

The most likely reason someone would do that is so that they can refer to that variable within __init__() without typing self.cell.column.region every single time. Is there anywhere else in the __init__() method that region is used?