Python: AttributeError: object has no attribute 'method'

Question

I'm very much new to Python, essentially being pushed into a new project with no knowledge of the language whatsoever. I've gone over a number of tutorials to get a gist of the syntax and some of the functions, but I'm currently stumped on something that seems pretty basic.

I have a class GeoLocationHandlerObj in GeoLocationSolver.py which has a method 'myMethod':

class GeoLocationHandlerObj(object):
  def __init__(self, connector, debug=0):
    self._debug = debug
    self.locator = GeoLocationSolverObj(connector)
    return(None)

  def close(self):
    ...
    return(None)

  def getAdr(self, point, lang):
    ...
    return(None)

  def getCom(self, point, lang):
    ...
    return(None)

  def getHmp(self, point, lang):
    ...
    return(None)

  def myMethod(self):
    print "test"
    return(None)

I import it and try to call myFunction:

import sys
import os
import psycopg2
import string
import json
import socket
import random

from GeoPackage.GeoCoding.GeoLocationSolver import *

if __name__ == "__main__":
  connector = GeoPSConnectorObj(...)
  handler = GeoLocationHandlerObj(connector)
  handler.myMethod()

When I run this code, I get the following error:

AttributeError: 'GeoLocationHandlerObj' object has no attribute 'myMethod'.

What am I missing in order to successfully call this method?

Why are you using the return(None) in the init function? and try using a different name than handler.. you might be importing that from one the libraries — yoav_aaa
– yoav_aaa, Commented Jul 18, 2018 at 8:50
import * clutters the namespace and you don't necessarily know with what. With my suggestion, you would then reference the class with connector = gls.GeoPSConnectorObj(...) then you're explicit which module that class comes from. — roganjosh
– roganjosh, Commented Jul 18, 2018 at 9:07
using import GeoPackage.GeoCoding.GeoLocationSolver as gls, print(gls.__file__) is the path correct? — e.s.
– e.s., Commented Jul 18, 2018 at 10:33

Richard Hendricks · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-06 19:45:12Z

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I had the same problem, adding two new methods to a previously existing class, trying to call the methods would fail because of "object has no attribute". Finally chased it down to the previous dev using a different tabs/spaces configuration from my editor. Once I changed my new code to use the same configuration as the previous code, Python was able to reference the functions.

answered Nov 6, 2018 at 19:45

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