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Wei
Wei

Reputation: 39

Can't call my class in Python

I am writing a class in python to revise a line in a text file. The code is tested to be functioning well when running alone.

class fileeditor:
    def __init__ (self,a,b):
        self.a = a
        self.b = b
        self.c = 0
        print 0
    def editinputfile (self):
        return 0
        with open (self.a,"r") as my_file:
           for line in my_file:
              if line.strip():
                  self.c+=1
        self.c=self.c-2
        with open (self.a,"r") as my_file:
            lines=my_file.readlines()
            lines[self.c]= self.b
        with open (self.a,"w") as my_file:
            my_file.write(''.join(lines))
        my_file.close()

But when i tried to call it from another file, it doesn't work. self.a is the address of the text file while self.b is the string that will overwrite one line in the text file.

from editor import fileeditor
a=".\test.txt"
b='1 2 4 5\n'
fileeditor(a, b)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1285

Answers (2)

Lord M-Cube
Lord M-Cube

Reputation: 361

First you should remove return 0 in editinputfile. Then you should also call this function.

from editor import fileeditor
a=".\test.txt"
b='1 2 4 5\n'
myfe = fileeditor(a, b)
myfe.editinputfile()

Upvotes: 1

Saullo G. P. Castro
Saullo G. P. Castro

Reputation: 58885

By the example you gave it seems that you are only creating the new instance but not calling the editinputfile method. Try to do:

fe = fileeditor(a, b)
fe.editinputfile()

Upvotes: 4

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