Adam W. schrieb: > I am using the xml.sax package, and I'm running into a little > problem. When I use the parse(url, ContentHandler()) method, I don't > know what parse() is naming the instance of ContentHandler. > > I have a sub-class of ContentHandler make a dictionary of what it > parses, but the problem is I don't know the name of instance for me to > get at it. The only way I have gotten at my dict is to declare it a > global value, and I know that is not the right way to do it. > > I though I would be clever and put "print self" inside the __int__ > method of the ContentHandler sub-class, in hopes it would display its > given name, but it returned a rather useless: <__main__.FeedHandler > instance at 0x02D8B5D0> > > So, any ideas on how to figure this out would be great.
It's a bit hard to get what you are after, but maybe this solves your problem? handler = FeedHandler() parse(handler) print handler.my_instance_variable_of_choice The above assumes that my_instance_variable_of_choice is created + filled within the handler of course. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
