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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:10:44 -0700
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On 01/23/2012 12:44 PM, Jonno wrote:
> Any ideas why I can reference foo inside the method but not in __init__?

No idea, but could you pass foo as a constructor parameter to __init__
and store it as an instance variable?