Eric Walker wrote: > Kent, > Where I think my problem maybe in how I am running this. I want to eventually > run from the command line. I started python idle from my linux command line > and I was cut and pasting from my text file and seeing things work. Now i > want to run it from the command line and its complaining. in my file I have > something of the following.
This is full of syntax errors... > > class yes: > def func1 should be def func1(self): > temp = re.match ##### OK but not used for anything > return str(tempREG != 'None' Missing close paren and tempREG is not defined so you will get a NameError at runtime > def display(self): This should have the same indentation as def func1; indentation is significant! > print all the class attributes.... > def __init__(self,value): > name = func1(value) probably you want self.func1(value) - to call a member function from inside another member function you have to prefix the name with self. > other stuff > > def func2(): > a = yes() > > try: > func2() > except: > print "error" Generic except: blocks like this are a bad idea, it hides useful information without providing any benefit. The traceback that Python prints on an uncaught exception may look like a lot of gibberish at first but it contains a wealth of useful information that is thrown away by this handler. HTH, Kent > > > On Thursday 06 October 2005 11:33 am, Kent Johnson wrote: > >>Eric Walker wrote: >> >>>I have a class I am defining and then I call a function within that >>>class. Getting error that function call is not defined. Does the function >>>have to be created anywhere within a class or does it have to be defined >>>before the call within the class. >> >>Actual code and the error message (including the traceback) would be >>helpful here. >> >>Generally functions (usually called methods in this context) are defined >>within the body of a class and then called from outside the class. >>Functions have to be defined before they are called but not before they >>are referenced. >> >>Very simple example: >> >>> class B: >> >> ... def foo(self): >> ... print 'foo' >> ... self.bar() >> ... def bar(self): >> ... print 'bar' >> ... >> >> >>> b=B() >> >>> b.foo() >> >>foo >>bar >> >>Kent >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org >>http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
