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| From | Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Of Functions, Objects, and Methods-I NEED HELP PLEASE |
| Date | 2011-06-09 10:25 -0700 |
| Organization | > Bestiaria Support Staff < |
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On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:59:35 -0700, Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
> > class Dog():
> > def __init__(self, name, breed):
> > self.name = name
> > self.breed = breed
> >
> > def dogAppend(self):
> > self.dogAppend = []
> > self.dogAppend.append((self.name,self.breed))
> > return self.dogAppend
>
> 2: This won't work to append to your list anyway... each time you call dogAppend() it will
> clear out any existing list and result in a list of one element, a tuple of (name, breed). You
> can do exactly the same thing with a single line: return [(self.name, self.breed)]
>
Worse than that... The first time dogAppend is called on an instance
of Dog, it replaces the dogAppend method with a binding to the (single
element) list created by the method.
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Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN
wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/
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Of Functions, Objects, and Methods-I NEED HELP PLEASE Cathy James <nambo4jb@gmail.com> - 2011-06-08 15:09 -0500
Re: Of Functions, Objects, and Methods-I NEED HELP PLEASE John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2011-06-08 20:42 +0000
Re: Of Functions, Objects, and Methods-I NEED HELP PLEASE Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2011-06-08 23:59 -0700
Re: Of Functions, Objects, and Methods-I NEED HELP PLEASE Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-09 05:54 -0700
Re: Of Functions, Objects, and Methods-I NEED HELP PLEASE Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-09 06:10 -0700
Re: Of Functions, Objects, and Methods-I NEED HELP PLEASE Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-06-09 10:25 -0700
Re: Of Functions, Objects, and Methods-I NEED HELP PLEASE Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2011-06-09 23:07 -0700
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