using attributes as defaults

[Stephen Hansen]

On 2/4/11 1:08 PM, Wanderer wrote:
> I want to give the option of changing attributes in a method or using
> the current values of the attributes as the default.
> 
> class MyClass():
>      """  my Class
>      """
>      def __init__(self):
>           """ initialize
>           """
>           self.a = 3
>           self.b = 4
> 
>      def MyMethod(self, a = self.a, b = self.b)
>           """ My Method
>           """
>           self.a = a
>           self.b = b
>           DoSomething(a, b)
> 
> The above doesn't work. Is there a way to make it work?

The normal way to go about it would be to set the a/b arguments to None,
like so:

def MyMethod(self, a = None, b = None):
    if a is not None:
        self.a = a
    if b is not None:
        self.b = b

    DoSomething(self.a, self.b)

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   Stephen Hansen
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