WSC in python clears method arguments

[Steve Holden]

"T Malcolm" <nt_colonel at hotmail.com> wrote ...
> I'm calling a WSC written in Python from a VBS script that is task
> scheduled.  This WSC is a "friendly" interface to the Python ftp
> library.  All is well, except for one quirk.  When I call methods on
> the WSC, it will clear the variable I pass as an argument.
>
So the scripting component is an object, and you are creating instances...

>
> Example vbs client script(where objFTP is an instance of the Python
> WSC):
> ----
> strRemotePath = rs.Fields("RemotePath").Value
>
> 'strRemotePath has a value here
>
> objFTP.cwd(strRemotePath)

So here you appear to be calling a method of the instance you created...
>
> 'strRemotePath is now a nullstring, the cwd command has succeeded.
> ----
>
> Python code in WSC (objFTP is an instance of FTP imported from
> ftplib):
> ----
> def cwd(RemotePath, FTP=objFTP):
>     FTP.cwd(RemotePath)
> ----

But this appears to be a function definition, not a method. Surely cwd()
shouod be defined inside the definition of the class instantiated as objFTP.
Its first argument should be self -- that's how ytou'd expect to [pick up
the object on which the method is being called.
>
> I had to use the FTP=objFTP as an argument because I couldn't
> reference objFTP in the function from the "global" namespace where it
> resides (another quirk?).
>
Erm, objFTP shouldn't (and probably doesn't) reside in your Python module's
namespace. It should be created dynamically and referred to as self (method
1st argument) when required.

> Anyway, does anybody have any idea how I can get this thing to quit
> "eating" my variable values?

There's probably something I'm missing here. Have you got a copy of Hammond
and Robinson's "Programming Python on Win32"?  Great reference to all this
stuff.

regards
 Steve
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