Python object holding a dict() of objects?

It looks like you are trying to "declare" instance attributes at the class level. Class attributes have their own specific uses in Python, and it is wrong to put them there if you are not intending to ever use the class attributes.

What happened is that you created a class attribute. Create an instance attribute instead by instantiating in __init__().

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