Self Undefined Error

Andrew Bennetts andrew-pythonlist at puzzling.org
Mon Jan 13 23:23:32 EST 2003


On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 04:05:09AM +0000, Brent Bailey wrote:
> I am new to python and I must not understand how to make correct
> declerations.  Does anyone have any idea why I get, NameError: "self" is not
> defined, for the following code.
> 
> import socket
> 
> import struct
> 
> import select
> 
> class Exploit:
> 
> def init(self):
> 
>         pass

Methods of a class need to be indented, so that they are "inside" the class.
E.g.:

class Exploit:
    def init(self):
        pass

(Note also that the constructor for a class in python is __init__, not init,
and if it doesn't do anything, may be omitted entirely.)

-Andrew.






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