I am very new to python. I was trying to pass value from one method to another within the class. I searched about the issue but i could not get proper solution. Because in my code, "if" is calling class's method "on_any_event" that in return should call my another method "dropbox_fn", which make use of the value from "on_any_event". Will it work, if the "dropbox_fn" method is outside the class?
I will illustrate with code.
class MyHandler(FileSystemEventHandler): def on_any_event(self, event): srcpath=event.src_path print (srcpath, 'has been ',event.event_type) print (datetime.datetime.now()) #print srcpath.split(' ', 12 ); filename=srcpath[12:] return filename # I tried to call the method. showed error like not callable def dropbox_fn(self)# Or will it work if this methos is outside the class ? #this method uses "filename"
if __name__ == "__main__": path = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else '.' print ("entry") event_handler = MyHandler() observer = Observer() observer.schedule(event_handler, path, recursive=True) observer.start() try: while True: time.sleep(1) except KeyboardInterrupt: observer.stop() observer.join()The main issue in here is.. I cannot call "on_any_event" method without event parameter. So rather than returning value, calling "dropbox_fn" inside "on_any_event" would be a better way. Can someone help with this?
11 Answer
To call the method, you need to qualify function with self.. In addition to that, if you want to pass a filename, add a filename parameter (or other name you want).
class MyHandler(FileSystemEventHandler): def on_any_event(self, event): srcpath = event.src_path print (srcpath, 'has been ',event.event_type) print (datetime.datetime.now()) filename = srcpath[12:] self.dropbox_fn(filename) # <---- def dropbox_fn(self, filename): # <----- print('In dropbox_fn:', filename)
