basic class question..

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Pyrot schrieb:
> class rawDNA:
> 	import string

Importing here is unusual. Unless you have good reasons to do so, I 
suggest you put the imports on top of the file.

> 	trans = string.maketrans("GATC","CTAG")
> 
> 
> 	def __init__(self, template = "GATTACA"):
> 		self.template = template  //shouldn't this make "template"
> accessible within the scope of "rawDNA"??

No.
> 
> 
> 	def noncoding(self):
> 		print template.translate(trans)  //

This needs to be

   print self.template.translate(trans)

Thes scopes insied a class are only the method-locals (to which the 
parameters count of course), and globals.

Diez