[Zope-dev] "Problem" using External Method

[Shane Hathaway]

"Espen S. Frederiksen" wrote:
> 
> The problem occur when I try to split up the function as
> shown below. I would like to store the data list, update it
> if nessesary and return it when appropriate. Am I making it
> unessesary complex when I use the class? Is there maybe a
> way to declare the data list global within the module? Or
> is there another, possibly different, way to do this?

Take out all the "import __main__" statements and you should be fine.

Python lets you access two namespaces at once: the "local" namespace and
the "global" namespace.  Were it not for the global namespace, you would
need to do something like "import __main__".  But since globals are
there, everything available at the module level is also available at the
function level.

Shane

> class Testclass:
>     def setdata(self,val1,val2,val3):
>         self.data = [val1,val2,val3]
>     def updatedata(self, index):
>         self.data[index] = self.data[index]+1
>     def display(self):
>         return self.data
> 
> x = Testclass()
> 
> def createdata(var1, var2, var3):
>     import __main__
>     x.setdata(var1, var2, var3)
> 
> def update(index):
>     import __main__
>     x.updatedata(index)
> 
> def returndata():
>     import __main__
>     return x.display()