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Investor
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Reputation: 185

How do I refer to the "return" of a function in a method from another class in Python?

Here is my code:

class MetricTensor:  #The Metric Tensor Class
    def __init__(self, g0, g1, g2, g3, g4, g5, g6, g7, g8, g9, g10, g11, g12, g13, g14, g15): #Metric components
        self.g0 = g0
        self.g1 = g1
        self.g2 = g2
        self.g3 = g3
        self.g4 = g4
        self.g5 = g5
        self.g6 = g6
        self.g7 = g7
        self.g8 = g8
        self.g9 = g9
        self.g10 = g10
        self.g11 = g11
        self.g12 = g12
        self.g13 = g13
        self.g14 = g14
        self.g15 = g15

    def LMetric(self):
        lmetric = [self.g0, self.g1, self.g2, self.g3, self.g4, self.g5, self.g6, self.g7, self.g8, self.g9, self.g10, self.g11, self.g12, self.g13, self.g14, self.g15]
        return list(lmetric)

    def Mmetric(self,lmetric):
        mmetric = np.matrix([lmetric[0],lmetric[1],lmetric[2],lmetric[3], [lmetric[4],lmetric[5],lmetric[6],lmetric[7]], [lmetric[8],lmetric[9],lmetric[10],lmetric[11]], [lmetric[12],lmetric[13],lmetric[14]],lmetric[15]])
        return mmetric

    def InvMmetric(self,mmetric):
         invmmetric =  self.np.linalg.inv(mmetric)
         return invmmetric
    def LInvMetric(self,invmmetric):
        linvmetric = list(invmmetric)
        return linvmetric

class ChristoffelSymbol(MetricTensor):
    def __init__(self,a, b, c):
        self.a = a
        self.b = b
        self.c = c
        Ca = None
        for k in numcoords:
            Ca += 1/2*(linvmetric)

Notice the last method of the MetricTensor class: LInvmetric, this function returns : linvmetric.

My question is: How do I use this return (linvmetric) in a new class (ChristoffelSymbol), that is a subclass of the first (MetricTensor)?

More accurately, how do I only use one element in linvmetric (since it is a list, I want to use linvmetric[0], for example)?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 70

Answers (2)

Dartmouth
Dartmouth

Reputation: 1089

Updated answer after some discussion:

You will also need to call the methods that you have defined in the MetricTensor class. The code below does this: 

mt = MetricTensor("...args...")  # args here are all the metric components
lmetric = mt.LMetric()
mmetric = mt.Mmetric(lmetric)
invmmetric = mt.InvMmetric(mmetric)
linvmetric = mt.LInvMetric(invmetric)

Now linvmetric can be used in further code.

Upvotes: 1

rafalf
rafalf

Reputation: 435

Just use self since it inherits from MetricTensor

self.LInvMetric() - will get you the full list
self.LInvMetric()[0]  - first elem and so on

Upvotes: 0

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