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Re: Need help fixing this error please:NameError: global name is not defined

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Date 2012-09-06 21:53 +1000
Subject Re: Need help fixing this error please:NameError: global name is not defined
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.295.1346932440.27098.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:37 PM, shaun <shaun.wiseman91@gmail.com> wrote:
> class StringCall:
>         results=[]
>         def databasebatchcall(self,termid, batchid):
>                 con = cx_Oracle.connect('user/user123@odb4.dcc.company.ie/ODB4TEST.COMPANY.IE')
>                 cur = con.cursor()
>                 cur.execute("SELECT * from name)
>                 results = cur.fetchall()

This actually never sets 'results', which is a class variable. You
should probably be using 'self.results' here; Python does not include
class/instance members in scope automatically.

Try using 'self.' for everything that you need to be maintained as
state, and see if that solves your problem.

But this looks to me like a case where you may not really even need a
class at all.

ChrisA

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Need help fixing this error please:NameError: global name is not defined shaun <shaun.wiseman91@gmail.com> - 2012-09-06 03:45 -0700
  Re: Need help fixing this error please:NameError: global name is not defined Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-09-06 21:05 +1000
  Re: Need help fixing this error please:NameError: global name is not defined Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-09-06 07:05 -0400
  Re: Need help fixing this error please:NameError: global name is not defined Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-09-06 13:07 +0200
  Re: Need help fixing this error please:NameError: global name is not defined Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-09-06 21:53 +1000
  Re: Need help fixing this error please:NameError: global name is not defined shaun <shaun.wiseman91@gmail.com> - 2012-09-06 05:07 -0700
    Re: Need help fixing this error please:NameError: global name is not defined Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-09-06 23:16 +1000
  Re: Need help fixing this error please:NameError: global name is not defined MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-09-06 13:08 +0100
  Re: Need help fixing this error please:NameError: global name is not defined Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-09-06 17:16 -0400

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