from a module return a class

Thu Mar 17 13:16:44 EDT 2016

kevind0718 at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello:
>> Working with python 2.7.
>> I have a module promptUser_PWord that will prompt a user for their user
> name and pword. Works fine stand alone.
> I also have a module, genXLS that does a bunch of processing it has worked
> fine for months. And a class Unamepword define as follows: class
> Unamepword:
> ## 
> ## class to hold user name and pWord for Database
> uName = None
> pWord = None
> def __init__(self, uStr, pStr):
> self.uName = uStr
> self.pWord = pStr
>> There are scenarios where running genXLS requires the user to be prompted
> for their user name and password.
>> The final line of promptUser_PWord are:
> user_pword = Unamepword(dbUser, pWord)
> return user_pword
>>> And in genXLS I have
> ## prompt the user for a User name a& pWord
> user_pword = promptUser_PWord()
>> I get the error
> File "H:\dev\eclipse\workspace\genXls\src\genXls\promptUser_PWord.py",
> line 58
> return user_pword
> SyntaxError: 'return' outside function
>>> Here is my complete newbee question:
> How do I stich these pieces together so the user will be prompted and
> the values (contained in the class Unamepword) will be passed back to
> genXLS ?

Just… define a function (SyntaxError: 'return' outside function).
> The final line of promptUser_PWord become:

user_pword = Unamepword(dbUser, pWord)
def get_user_pword():
 return user_pword
and call get_user_pword() from within genXLS:
user_pword = promptUser_PWord.get_user_pword()
A+
Laurent
>> Many thanks for your attention to this matter.
>> KD