Question

I’m a newbie to PyDev in Eclipse.
When coding simple programs, I use print() statements regularly in order to track the values of variables. I want these values to be printed to the console but I couldn’t get any value printed in the console so far.

Here’s a simple piece of code to demonstrate what I’m trying to do.

class MyClass(object):

  def __init__(self):

    myClassObject= MyClass()
    myClassObject.greet()


    def greet(self):
       print("stackoverflow is the best !!!")

I’m expecting to see the string “stackoverflow is the best !!!” in the console but when I run the code I get nothing at all. What am I supposed to do?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You have not instantiated the class. In order to produce output from what you’ve got try the following:

if __name__ == '__main__':
  instance = MyClass()

— REVISED —

In light of your rewritten code, you should have the following:

class MyClass(object):
    def __init__(self):
        #myClassObject= MyClass() # Causes recursion error.
        #myClassObject.greet() # You should not be accessing your instance method this way
        self.greet()


    def greet(self):
        print("stackoverflow is the best !!!")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    instance = MyClass()

Your example appears to be overly complicated. You would do well to review class usage in Python for Python 2.7 or Python 3.3.