[Tutor] OOP help needed

[Peter Otten]

Jim Byrnes wrote:

> OOP has always driven me crazy.  I read the material and follow the
> examples until I feel I understand them, but when I try to implement it
> I end up with an error filled mess.
> 
> So I decided to give it another try.  When I got to the chapter on
> tkinter I decided to solve all the exercises using OOP even though the
> book solutions did not use OOP. The first one went fine:

No, it didn't. The Goodbye.quit() method is missing the self argument and 
uses the inexistent self.window attribute.
You don't see these bugs when you run the script because there is a global 
quit()... let's say function... that is called instead of the method. 

You can put a print() into Goodbye.quit() to verify the above.
 
> #exer1.py
> 
> import tkinter
> 
> class Goodbye:
>    def __init__(self):
> 
>      self.frame = tkinter.Frame(window)
>      self.frame.pack()
> 
>      self.goodbye_button = tkinter.Button(self.frame, text='Goodbye',
>        #command=quit)
>        command=lambda: quit() )

The lambda is superfluous -- command=quit will already invoke the global 
quit(). But what you actually intended is achieved with command=self.quit.
self.quit is called "bound method".

>      self.goodbye_button.pack()
> 
>    def quit():
       print("you'll never see this")
>      self.window.destroy()
> 
> if __name__=='__main__':
>    window = tkinter.Tk()
>    myapp = Goodbye()
>    window.mainloop()