Hi,
Jan Eden wrote on 26.08.2005:
>Hi,
>
>I need to use an instance attribute as the default value for a parameter to a
>method.
>
>This obviously won't work:
>
>page.Children()
>
>def Children(self, id=self.id, level=2):
>
>How can I get the id parameter to use the attribute page.id? I know I could
>simply use the method call
>
>page.Children(id=page.id)
>
>but I thought it is much more elegant to use a default value here.
>
>Is it possible?
Addition: I do use
def Children(self, id=0, level=2):
if not id: id = self.id
right now. But still - there has to be a smarter way.
Thanks,
Jan
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