Help, re SMTP posting / RFC822

[Benjamin Schollnick]

On Sat, 18 Sep 1999 05:29:19, "Phil Mayes" <nospam at bitbucket.com> 
wrote:

> > On this routine, I was getting name lookup errors, until I changed
> >the references to include "self.",
> > which makes some degree of sense.  But then, I was getting Attribute
> >Errors, until I changed all the
> > other calls in the module to be self's.
> >
> > It makes sense, but I was suprised that I would manually (via self)
> >have to tell python that the data
> > is from the object's local namespace, instead of it automatically
> >recognizing that.  (Ala Borland Pascal)
> 
> Yes, you do have to - it's the equivalent of C++'s this.  Again, guaranteed
> to bite a few times before becoming intuitive.  My common error was:
>     ...
>     self.x = 3
>     ...
>     x = 7
>     ...
>     if self.x == 7: # WHAT?! why doesn't this succeed ?!
> The above creates a separate variable x that is local to the member
> function.

Yeah, exactly, it makes sense but I'm so use to a compilier that does
that automatically.  It's a little counter intuitive, but AOK.

I was worried that I was manipulating the variable space incorrectly, 
thanks
for the reassurance.... After all, this is my first "so-called major" 
step into 
PYTHON OOP.  If you take a look, every language has it's own variants 
of 
"OPP-ness", python is no different >g<.

		- Benjamin

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