Why this fails??

[Dave Angel]

On 02/29/2012 04:07 AM, Smiley 4321 wrote:
> Why below fails -
>
> ----
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> import pickle
>
> class MyClass(object):
>
>      Field1 = None
>      Field2 = None
>
>      def __init__(self, dictionary):
>          self.__dict__.update(dictionary)
>
>      my_List = {'Field1': 'Apple', 'Field2': 'Orange'}
>      myInst = MyClass(my_List)
>
>      with open('/tmp/readfile.pkl', 'wb') as f:
>           pickle.dump(myInst, f)
> ----
>
> with below error messges -
>
> $ ./pickleClassWrite.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "./pickleClassWrite.py", line 5, in<module>
>      class MyClass(object):
>    File "./pickleClassWrite.py", line 14, in MyClass
>      myInst = MyClass(my_List)
> NameError: name 'MyClass' is not defined
> ---
>

The reason for the error is that you're trying to use the class (by 
name) before its definition is complete.

The cause is that the code starting with the line "my_list = {Field1... 
" should have been dedented to be at top-level.  You don't want those 
last 4 lines to be inside the class.





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DaveA