On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > This just makes x an alias for the class object. Should be > x = myClass() > > > x.myMethod() > > then this will work.
Ah! Thank you! I knew/guessed the alias bit from my experience with C++, but I couldn't figure out exactly what I needed. I've seen the "self" reference before, but I never really understood it. Let me see if I understand correctly: class myClass(): creates a new "data type"(?), called myClass, and x = myClass() creates a variable with the type of "myClass", similar to foo = dict() and the method inside myClass defined as myMethod(self), can be called on the data type "myClass" like this: x.myMethod() is that fairly accurate? -- To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't. - Primo Levi _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
