Passing values to a class

[Bruce Wolk]

Jay,

You are right that the scope is wrong.  In __init__ add  the statement
self.base = base  and in createdb use self.base instead of base.

Bruce

Jay Collins wrote:

> Anyone shed some light on what I'm doing stupid/wrong here:
>
> import dbm
>
> class db:
>         def __init__(self,base):
>                 print "using database",base
>                 pass
>         def createdb(self):
>                 d = dbm.open(base,"n")
>                 d['name'] = "Jim Smith"
>                 d.close()
>
> app = db("databse")
> app.createdb()
>
> how come createdb() doesn't see base? Maybe I'm not getting class scope
> correctly. My idea was to pass what database I wanted to work on for that
> instance. Then I could call the methods to do work on the data in it.