Question

Working with classes in one of my projects for the first time, I seem to be making a mistake somewhere that I can’t pick.

class aiRespond:
    def generateResponse( self, external_input ):
        return external_input

    def giveResponse( self, external_input ):
        self.generateResponse(self, external_input)

aiResponder = aiRespond()
retrieve_ai_response = aiResponder.giveResponse()

while 1:
    external_input = raw_input("> ")
    print retrieve_ai_response(external_input)

Error:

TypeError: unbound method giveResponse() must be called with aiRespond instance as first argument (got str instance instead)

I have tried many different ways of structuring this. I would prefer retrieve_ai_response = aiRespond.giveResponse to be in one line as I am going to have a lot of things similar to this.

Would someone mind pointing out where I’m going on and why?

Answer 1

class aiRespond:
    def generateResponse( self, external_input ):
        return external_input

    def giveResponse( self, external_input ):
        return self.generateResponse( external_input) #remove self as parameter,add return

aiResponder = aiRespond()
retrieve_ai_response = aiResponder.giveResponse #remove "()"

while 1:
    external_input = raw_input("> ")
    print retrieve_ai_response(external_input)

I have modified you code,Hope it works!