On 5 April 2012 19:45, Alex Ogier <alex.og...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> >> class User(models.Model):
>> >> MALE = 0
>> >> FEMALE = 1
>> >> GENDERS = [(MALE, 'Male'), (FEMALE, 'Female')]
>> >> gender = models.IntegerField(choices=GENDERS)
>> >>
>> >> def greet(self):
>> >> return {MALE: 'Hi, boy', FEMALE: 'Hi, girl.'}[self.gender]
>> >>
>>
>> I' sure you meant:
>>
>> def greet(self):
>> return {self.MALE: 'Hi, boy', self.FEMALE: 'Hi, girl.'}[self.gender]
>>
>> Unless you defined MALE/FEMALE as globals too :) Otherwise you'll get
>> a NameError.
>>
>> --
>> Łukasz Rekucki
>
> As attributes of the class object I'm pretty sure they are in scope. No
> NameErrors there.
>
That's not how it works. Code that executes when creating a new class
does not define a lexical scope. There is no such thing as "class
scope". Try it yourself:
http://ideone.com/xbr0q
--
Łukasz Rekucki
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