Using an object inside a class

Mon Jan 23 15:27:27 EST 2012

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Jonno <jonnojohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a pretty complicated bit of code that I'm trying to convert to
> more
> > clean OOP.
>> Then you probably should not be using globals.
>
I'm trying to rewrite the whole thing to get rid of my globals.
>> > Without getting too heavy into the details I have an object which I am
> > trying to make available inside another class. The reference to the
> object
> > is rather long and convoluted but what I find is that within my class
> > definition this works:
> >
> > class Class1:
> > def __init__(self):
> >
> > def method1(self):
> > foo.bar.object
> >
> > But this tells me "global name foo is not defined":
> >
> > class Class1:
> > def __init__(self):
> > foo.bar.object
>> Where is foo actually stored? Is it in fact a global, or is it
> somewhere else? Please post the actual code. I suspect that what's
> going on here is that you're assigning foo somewhere inside method1
> and so it is actually a local variable to that method, but there is no
> way to know that for certain from the minimal snippet provided.
>> The whole code is complex but here is where I define foo and bar:

class MyApp(wx.App):
 def OnInit(self):
 self.bar = MyFrame(None, -1, 'App Name')
 self.bar.Show(True)
 return True
foo = MyApp(0)
app.MainLoop()
There is nothing inside method1 except the foo.bar.object reference.
> > Obviously I want the object to be available throughout the class (I left
> out
> > the self.object = etc for simplicity).
>> Do you mean that you want the same object to be available to all
> instances of Class1, or that you just want the object to be available
> to all methods within a single instance (and other instances might
> access other objects)? In the first case, I would recommend storing
> foo in a class attribute; in the second case, an instance attribute.
> Either way, it would then be accessed simply as "self.foo".
>
Either way would work but the main issue is I can't seem to use foo or
foo.bar or foo.bar.object anywhere in __init__ or even before that in the
main class area.
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