object instance after if isalpha()

[Marcelo Urbano Lima]

ops, I forgot to use the self.
so in this example what i was trying to do worked. I'll look further in my 
original program.

sorry to bother you.


>From: "Marcelo Urbano Lima" <marcelo_urbano at hotmail.com>
>To: python-list at python.org
>Subject: object instance after if isalpha()
>Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:44:11 -0300
>
>Hi
>I'm still learning python and I've been loving it, but, that's not the
>reason I'm writing.
>
>I'm trying to create an object only if a variable is alpha and see what I
>get.
>
>$ cat 1.py
>class abc:
>   def __init__(self):
>     name='marcelo'
>
>a='STRING'
>print a.isalpha()
>
>if a.isalpha():
>   x=abc()
>
>print 'was x created?:', x,'\n'
>print x.name
>
>
>$ python 1.py
>True
>was x created?: <__main__.abc instance at 0x186b9e6c>
>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "1.py", line 12, in ?
>     print x.name
>AttributeError: abc instance has no attribute 'name'
>
>Why?  (I really think I'm doing something stupid but could not see)
>btw, it's python 2.4.1 for cygwin.
>
>I'd really appreciate your help.
>
>Thanks
>
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