On 11/02/16 21:20, Peter Otten wrote: >> defined within the formatter method, everything works, but when I pull it >> out and put it in the upper level of the class, it gives me a traceback >> that says the global variable xslt is not defined. Does that help? > > You need to qualify the class attribute with self to access it from within a > method:
Or you could use the class name since it is a class attribute: >>>> class MyClass: > ... xslt = "/path/to/file" > ... def some_method(self): > ... print(MyClass.xslt) If you need the possibility of having different paths for different instances you need to initialise it in an __init__() method: class MyClass: def __init__(self,path): self.xslt = path ... instance1 = MyClass('/some/path/here') instance2 = MyClass('/another/path/here') The way you have it currently both instances share the same path. But that may be what you want. -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor