Procedural API inside class--scoping questions

Arnaud Delobelle arnodel at googlemail.com
Mon Jan 11 11:01:16 EST 2010


On 11 Jan, 15:54, Kevin Walzer <k... at codebykevin.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to make use of a Python library, aemreceive, that provides a
> procedural API. (aemreceive is a library for Python on the Mac that
> allows the application to receive and respond to Apple Events.)
>
> My Python apps basically run in a single fooApp class, and everything
> runs inside the class. To launch the app (my apps are Tkinter-based), I
> use something like this:
>
> if __name__== '__main__':
>      app = fooApp(None)
>      app.mainloop()
>
> In keeping with aemreceive's procedural API, I've added a runCommand
> function inside the app class to provide some basic functionality in
> response to Apple Events it will set some objects/variables, then
> display the output in the app. In my code it looks like this:
>
>      def runCommand(string):
>          self.searchterm=string
>          self.servertree.selection_set('Default')
>          self.getInfo()
>
> When I test this command, I get an error from Python: "self" is not
> defined.
>

Is runcommand is method of your class?  In that case you should define
it as:

    def runCommand(self, string):
        ...

HTH

--
Arnaud



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