Classes
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sohcahtoa82 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 30 21:21:13 EDT 2014
On Thursday, October 30, 2014 2:37:54 PM UTC-7, Seymore4Head wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 14:28:19 -0700, Larry Hudson <orgnut at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> >On 10/30/2014 01:16 PM, Seymore4Head wrote:
> >> class pet:
> >> def set_age(self,age):
> >> self.age=age
> >> def get_age(self):
> >> return self.age
> >> pax=pet
> >> pax.set_age(4)
> >>
> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >> File "C:\Functions\test.py", line 18, in <module>
> >> pax.set_age(4)
> >> TypeError: set_age() missing 1 required positional argument: 'age'
> >>
> >> I am trying to pass 4 as the age. Obviously I am doing it wrong.
> >>
> >You have already received the answer -- pax=pet should be pax=pet(), but I have a simple
> >side-comment about style. It is common Python convention to capitalize class names, IOW make
> >this class Pet instead of class pet. This is convention not a requirement, but it does help
> >distinguish class names from ordinary variable names -- especially to others reading your code
> >(as well as yourself a few days later). ;-)
> >
> > -=- Larry -=-
>
> I try to take typing shortcuts and it bites me in the behind.
> Good suggestion
> Thanks
A shortcut is the fastest way to get somewhere you weren't going.
Python makes programming very easy (Compared to C/C++ and many other languages), but there are still a lot of shortcuts you can't make.
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