Scribd
Upload
4 views5 pages

030 Class Body Scope

Uploaded by

MyYouTube Channel

Class definitions contain nested scopes. The class body has its own scope that contains methods and attributes. However, methods defined in the class body are nested in the containing module's scope, not the class body scope. So when looking up symbols, methods will use the module scope rather than the class body scope. This can cause issues if a method expects a symbol to be in the class body scope.

Copyright:

© All Rights Reserved
Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
Download as pdf or txt

030 Class Body Scope

Uploaded by

MyYouTube Channel
4 views5 pages
Class definitions contain nested scopes. The class body has its own scope that contains methods and attributes. However, methods defined in the class body are nested in the containing module's scope, not the class body scope. So when looking up symbols, methods will use the module scope rather than the class body scope. This can cause issues if a method expects a symbol to be in the class body scope.

Original Description:

Python Class Body

Copyright

© © All Rights Reserved

Available Formats

PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Class definitions contain nested scopes. The class body has its own scope that contains methods and attributes. However, methods defined in the class body are nested in the containing module's scope, not the class body scope. So when looking up symbols, methods will use the module scope rather than the class body scope. This can cause issues if a method expects a symbol to be in the class body scope.

Copyright:

© All Rights Reserved
Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
Download as pdf or txt
4 views5 pages

030 Class Body Scope

Uploaded by

MyYouTube Channel
Class definitions contain nested scopes. The class body has its own scope that contains methods and attributes. However, methods defined in the class body are nested in the containing module's scope, not the class body scope. So when looking up symbols, methods will use the module scope rather than the class body scope. This can cause issues if a method expects a symbol to be in the class body scope.

Copyright:

© All Rights Reserved
Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
Download as pdf or txt
You are on page 1/ 5

©2019 MathByte Academy

Nested scopes in Class definitions à module has its own (global) scope
contains Python, p

# module1.py
à class body has its own scope
class Python: contains kingdom, phylum , family , __init__
, say_hello
kingdom = 'animalia'
phylum = 'chordata' à what about the scope of functions
family = 'pythonidae' defined in the body of a class?

def __init__(self, species): à turns out they are NOT nested inside the
self.species = species class body scope

def say_hello(self):
return 'ssss…' à symbols __init__, say_hello are in the class
body scope
p = Python('monty')
à but functions themselves are nested in the
class's containing scope
(module1 in this example)

©2019 MathByte Academy


Think of it this way

# module1.py

class Python:

kingdom = 'animalia'
phylum = 'chordata' def callable_1(self, species):
family = 'pythonidae' self.species = species

__init__ = callable_1

say_hello = callable_2 def callable_2(self):


return 'ssss…'
p = Python('monty')

à when Python looks for a symbol in a function, it will therefore not use the class body scope!
©2019 MathByte Academy
In practical terms…

class Account: this works because APR and


COMP_FREQ = 12 COMP_FREQ are symbols in the
APR = 0.02 # 2% same (class body) namespace
APY = (1 + APR/COMP_FREQ) ** COMP_FREQ - 1

def __init__(self, balance):


this works because we used self.APY
self.balance = balance

def monthly_interest(self):
return self.balance * self.APY

@classmethod this works because we used cls.APY


def monthly_interest_2(cls, amount):
return amount * cls.APY

@staticmethod this works because we used Account.APY


def monthly_interest_3(amount):
return amount * Account.APY
this will fail if APY is not defined in this function's
def monthly_interest_3(self): scope or in any enclosing scope
return self.amount * APY
©2019 MathByte Academy
BEWARE: This can produce subtle bugs!
Coding

©2019 MathByte Academy

You might also like