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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject: Re: Calling a variable inside a function of another class
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:41:54 -0500
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> Yigit Turgut wrote:
>> class test(test1):
>>
>> def __init__(self, device):
>> .
>> .
>> .
>> def _something(self, x=1)
>> self.dt = data
>>
>>
>> if __name__ == "__main__":
>> test.something.dt ???
>>
>> I am trying to call a variable located in a function of a class

dt is an attribute of an instance of the class.
   t = test() # create instance
   t._something() # call method that assigns attribute to t
   t.dt  # is not the value of dt for t

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy