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:

class MyCl         


        

Answer 1

If I'm not wrong, both functions are part of your class, you should use it like this:

class MyClass():
    def __init__(self, filename):
        self.filename = filename 

        self.stat1 = None
        self.stat2 = None
        self.stat3 = None
        self.stat4 = None
        self.stat5 = None
        self.parse_file()

    def parse_file(self):
        #do some parsing
        self.stat1 = result_from_parse1
        self.stat2 = result_from_parse2
        self.stat3 = result_from_parse3
        self.stat4 = result_from_parse4
        self.stat5 = result_from_parse5

replace your line:

parse_file() 

with:

self.parse_file()