method in the definiton of a methond

[Gonçalo Rodrigues]

On 29 Oct 2003 12:22:11 +0100, Zunbeltz Izaola
<zunbeltz at wm.lc.ehu.es.XXX> wrote:

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>
>I what to change de definiton of Move to something like
>    def Move(self, table, angle,handle=self.GetNewHandle)
>        
>
>  File "comunicacion.py", line 201, in difracsocket
>    def Move(self,handle=self.GetNewHandle()):
>NameError: name 'self' is not defined
>

The traceback tells it all: self is not defined. self is *local* to
the Move method itself. You can't access it from the outside which is
what you are trying to do, by putting it in the args list for Move.

The following should work

def Move(self,handle = None):
    if handle is None:
        handle = self.GetNewHandler()
    etc,...

With my best regards,
G. Rodrigues