[Tutor] Accessing a list inside a class...

[Alexander Daychilde (Gmail)]

I feel like I'm missing something simple, but I have now spent hours
googling for an answer. I think I must not be searching for the right terms,
or else this is something I'm not supposed to be doing - but it seems
straightforward to me.

 

Here's my test code (condensed from the actual much longer code I'm adapting
from functions to objects - I'm new to OOP, but I'm trying J ):

 

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class TestObject:

    

    def __init__(self):

        

        # options and arguments from commandline-->OptionParser

        self.opt = ""

        self.args = []

 

    def load_cfg(self):

        

        # read+parse commandlnie

        self._parse_commandline()

    

    def load_ini(self):

        

        ##### I'm trying to get at 'inifile' from the commandline... #####

        print self.opt['inifile']

 

    def _parse_commandline(self):

        

        parser = OptionParser()

        

        parser.add_option("-i", dest = "inifile", help = "specify an ini
file to load")

        

        (self.opt, self.args) = parser.parse_args()

 

if __name__ == '__main__':

    

    # parses command-line argumenmts

    from optparse import OptionParser

    

    test = TestObject()

    test.load_cfg()

    test.load_ini()

 

 

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In the middle is a comment with five hashes to show you the crux of my
problem.

 

If I eliminate "['inifile']", I can print the list.

 

How in the world can I get just the 'inifile' element?

 

Ideally, of course, I'm not printing this - I'm going to access it from
outside the class, or even inside the class.

 

The error I get when running the above code:

 

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "listinclass.py", line 34, in <module>

    test.load_ini()

  File "listinclass.py", line 17, in load_ini

    print self.opt['inifile']

AttributeError: Values instance has no attribute '__getitem__'

 

I've googled for "list in a class" and pretty much every variant I can think
of, and I just can't seem to find a single example of someone trying to get
to an element of a list stored in a class. so I apologize for asking a
basic/simple question, but I just can't find it.

 

Many thanks for your consideration.

 

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