Too Self Centered

[Terry Hancock]

beno wrote:
> I'm writing my first real script and running into what appears to be a
> problem. Although this code works perfectly well, it seems to have way too
> many uses of *self.* in it. But if I don't put them in, the runtime
> compiler complains that various global names aren't defined. What to do?
> Here's an example of the code.
> TIA,
> beno
> 
>   def __init__(self):
>    self.readFile = open('test1','r')
>    while self.readFile.readline() != '':
>     self.count = self.count + 1
>    self.total = self.count

Why do you need 'count' to be a permanent object attribute?  It's also sort 
of odd to keep the file reference unless your object is going to be 
continually accessing the file and will cease to be useful when the file is 
closed.

Maybe you should just use more local variables:

    def __init__(self):
          f = open('test1','r')
          while f.readline()!=''
                i += 1
          self.total = i
          f.close()

or something like that? Also, note that using deeper indentation steps 
*greatly* improves readability.

HTH,
Terry

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