On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Marc Gartler wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Prior to this chunk of code 'glass' has been chosen from a list of > colors via user input, and I now want to have that choice connect to > one of several possible classes: > > def glass_type(glasstype): > if glasstype == 'Red': > myglass = RedGlassCost() > elif glasstype == 'Blue': > myglass = BlueGlassCost() > elif glasstype == 'Yellow': > myglass = YellowGlassCost() > return myglass > > glasschoice = glass_type(glass)
At this point, glasschoice is set to glass_type(glass), which in turn is something like RedGlassCost(). > AttributeError: RedGlassCost instance has no __call__ method Right; it sounds like you're using RedGlassCost as a function, but it wasn't defined as a function. Can you show us how RedGlassCost is defined? > I've tried various approaches and keep getting different errors. But > this one seems closest to my goal, as I know it is at least passing > 'glass' into the function: My mother always told me to apologize after passing glass. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor