Python OOP and lists
- by Mikk
Hi,
I'm new to Python and it's OOP stuff and can't get it to work. Here's my code:
class Tree:
root = None;
data = [];
def __init__(self, equation):
self.root = equation;
def appendLeft(self, data):
self.data.insert(0, data);
def appendRight(self, data):
self.data.append(data);
def calculateLeft(self):
result = [];
for item in (self.getLeft()):
if (type(item) == type(self)):
data = item.calculateLeft();
else:
data = item;
result.append(item);
return result;
def getLeft(self):
return self.data;
def getRight(self):
data = self.data;
data.reverse();
return data;
tree2 = Tree("*");
tree2.appendRight(44);
tree2.appendLeft(20);
tree = Tree("+");
tree.appendRight(4);
tree.appendLeft(10);
tree.appendLeft(tree2);
print(tree.calculateLeft());
It looks like tree2 and tree are sharing list "data"?
At the moment I'd like it to output something like [[20,44], 10, 4], but when I
tree.appendLeft(tree2)
I get RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded, and when i even won't appendLeft(tree2) it outputs [10, 20, 44, 4] (!!!). What am I missing here? I'm using Portable Python 3.0.1.
Thank you