Fix broken python method #8821
Fix broken python method #8821
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@RDIL Is this Python version related? |
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@iSazonov what do you mean? I’m just fixing broken code in this PR. |
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I guess that the code worked on old Python version. |
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The code clearly defines that the script should use a python 3.x.x version, but the this keyword hasn’t been a thing since the 2.5 series. I think it is time to update! |
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Worth noting that neither this nor self are keywords in Python; instance methods in Python pass the instance reference explicitly through the first parameter, and you can call that parameter whatever you like (you don't even need to be consistent):
class MyObject:
def __init__(banana):
banana.field = 10
def get_field(truck):
return truck.field
if __name__ == '__main__':
print(MyObject().get_field()) # prints '10'So this Python script would have run correctly using this.
However, self is the near-universal convention, and worth us aligning to that, especially in our examples. Thanks @RDIL!
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@SteveL-MSFT Make sense to move this to Docs repo? |
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@iSazonov We may want to eventually have a doc page about interop with other languages, but we can keep this code here in this repo for now |
PR Summary
thisdoesn’t work in python, the keyword isself.PR Context
It needs to be fixed.
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