🔒 Why doesn't my Camera class accept a Settings object in its code, whereas my Shape class does?

[raw laurel]

The four images show that my Shape class has no troubles reading the "camera_mode" variable from my settings object, while the Camera tells me that it does not exist. Did I order anything incorrectly? Is there another reason as to why it doesn't work? To whoever can help me, thank you in advance

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@raw laurel

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[vast merlin]

unsure without seeing the actual code. but it looks like you're trying to access a settings variable in the class body, rather than in a method of the class.

you might want to pass in the settings as argument to Camera() instead, and put it on self inside of the camera class.

[raw laurel]

I'd like to do that without having the user always put in cam=Camera(settings) at the beginning. Is there a way to do that automatically?

If not, then I am fine with passing it as an argument manually

[vast merlin]

not any pretty way. It's generally the recommended way to inject things into the class like that, if they're needed in the class.

if it's only needed in very few places in the class, it might also be possible to only pass it as argument to the respective method(s) that need the settings.

[raw laurel]

how could I do that?

[vast merlin]

by passing it in as argument, whenever you call a method on the cam instance. Though it's usually better to just pass it in to Camera instead as you already suggested, especially if multple methods need the settings for stuff.

[raw laurel]

Thank you!

[paper forge]

Why do you have if True

[raw laurel]

To be able to make this take only one line and not clutter up the workspace

[paper forge]

Wym? Is it just for indenting?

[raw laurel]

Yup.
Just so I can avoid scrolling through it

[paper forge]

Why not just make a function like def main

[raw laurel]

How could that work?

[paper forge]

def main():
    print("Hello, world")

main()

[raw laurel]

but this is only a temporary setup. The dump() function will give me a copy-pastable form of the shape for me to put in a permanent list

but I do thank you for the idea!

[paper forge]

I see

[glass axle]

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