Calling a class function inside of __init__

Question

I\'m writing some code that takes a filename, opens the file, and parses out some data. I\'d like to do this in a class. The following code works:

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Answer 1

Call the function in this way:

self.parse_file()

You also need to define your parse_file() function like this:

def parse_file(self):

The parse_file method has to be bound to an object upon calling it (because it's not a static method). This is done by calling the function on an instance of the object, in your case the instance is self.