Accessing a variable inside the method of a class

Question

I\'m creating a budgeting program using Tkinter/Python. This is the basics of my code:

class Expense:
  def __init__(self):
    def Save(self)
       TotalAmount         


        

Answer 1

You could simply create a variable inside the __init__() method which gets called as soon as a class is initialized, and then you can change the value of the variable which would get reflected outside the class as well.

It seems that you were trying to create a method save() for the class so I did the same for you, If you don't want your save() method to take any arguments then you can also use def save(self):

class Expense:
    def __init__(self):
        #Do some initializations here
        self.TotalAmount = 0
    def save(self, amount):
        self.TotalAmount = amount


exp = Expense()
print exp.TotalAmount
>>> 0
exp.save(10)
print exp.TotalAmount
>>> 10