NameError question - def(self, master) - master not in namespace within class?

[harijay]

Thanks Jerry and beiff ,
Jerry was right, it was an indent problem . Between using my text
editor and running from commandline something went out of sync and I
didnt catch it probably.
I can now reproduce the error with a bad ident .

These are my first posts to comp.lang.python..and I am very grateful
to everyone for their time .

harijay

On Oct 9, 12:07 pm, "Jerry Hill" <malaclyp... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:43 AM, harijay <hari... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi I am new to writing module and object oriented python code. I am
> > trying to understand namespaces and classes in python.
>
> > I have the following test case given in three files runner , master
> > and child. I am getting an error within child where in one line it
> > understands variable master.name and in the next line it gives a
> > NameError as given here
>
> <snip>
>
> > #File child.py
> > class child():
> >        def __init__(self,master):
> >                print "Master  name is %s" % master.name
> >                print  "Now seeting master name to setnameinchild in child.py "
> >                tmp = master.trash
> >                master.trash = master.name
> >                master.name = "setnameinchild"
> >        print "Reset name now from %s to %s , oldname %s is saved in
> > mastertrash" % (master.trash, master.name , master.trash)
>
> The last line (starting with print), is not indented to the correct
> level.  Assuming it's supposed to be part of the child class's
> __init__ method, it needs to line up with the rest of that method.
>
> --
> Jerry