Issue 36096: IDLE: Refactor class variables to instance variables in colorizer (original) (raw)

From Terry's comment on PR11472 for issue 35689:

I don't like the use of class variables to initialize volatile instance state variables. I think it confuses the code a bit. Better, I think, to put them in an init_state method called from __init__. (I am not sure if method could be used in tests.) Since the tests do not access the class vars directly on the class, they should not be affected. I am leaving this minor refactoring for another issue after merging the tests. Then we can modify the class docstring.