Panos Laganakos wrote: > I'd like to know how its possible to pass a data attribute as a method > parameter. > > Something in the form of: > > class MyClass: > def __init__(self): > self.a = 10 > self.b = '20' > > def my_method(self, param1=self.a, param2=self.b): > pass > > Seems to produce a NameError of 'self' not being defined.
Default arguments are statically bound, so you'll need to do something like this: class MyClass: def __init__(self): self.a = 10 self.b = '20' def my_method(self, param1=None, param2=None): if param1 is None: param1 = self.a if param2 is None: param2 = self.b --Ben -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list