Calling global functions from a class?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Robert Dailey wrote:

> I have the following python script:
> 
> def __normalizePath( path ):
>     return osp.abspath( osp.normpath( path ) )
>    
> class AbsolutePath:
>     def __init__( self, root="" ):
>         _root = __normalizePath( root )
> 
> 
> When I create an AbsolutePath object, I get the following error:
> 
> NameError: global name '_AbsolutePath__normalizePath' is not defined
> 
> Is there a reason for this?

the "__" prefix (double underscores) is reserved for private attributes 
and methods in a class.  it does not work for module-level names.

 > How can I make this work?

rename the global function.

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