[Tutor] List of class instances

[Jan Eden]

Hi,

Jan Eden wrote on 20.09.2005:

>Hi,
>
>I'd like to form a list of class instances. The following does not work 
>(TextfieldLong, Textarea, TextfieldShort etc being class names):
>
>    fields = [
>        TextfieldLong(name='title', label='Seitentitel', value=''),
>        Textarea(name='content', label='Inhalt', value=''),
>        ShortField(name='mother_id', label='MotherID', value=1)
>    ]
>    

Just found that it *does* work, but that I have to define the classes above the list assignment. Why is that? Why would Python not find the classes within the same file?

TIA,

Jan
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