On Mar 18, 7:32 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > Here, the message1 and message2 names are LOCAL variables of the > respective methods: each disappear as soon as its method ends. > > If you want to make them into INSTANCE attributes, so they'll stick > around for later, assign to self.message1 and self.message2 instead (and > of course use these composite names too if need be).
Ah ha, the nugget of info I was forgetting! Looking back now I can see why the author used the self.whatever, and why my code is not working. When I'm reading along all his code looks find and dandy, makes perfect sense; but soon as I try to do something on my own quickly find that my understanding of how things work is very porous :) > This would be pretty weird, but legal Python. > Weirder and weirder, but still legal Python. This is usually how most of my code turns out :( I'm afraid if I ever learn enough to make a serious program I will be burned at the stake for such un- pythonic practices :P -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
