Error message...object cant find attribute

[Ian Strawser]

class Encrypt(object):
 #The worst object ever created
    def __init__(self,alphabet):
        self.alphabet = alphabet
        self.trans = self.maketrans()
        self.count = -1
        self.translist = []
 
    def maketrans(self):
        x = (random.randrange(0,len(self.alphabet)))
        if(self.count == len(self.alphabet)):
            return(self.translist)
        elif(x in self.translist):
            x = input("enter a number, bitch")
            self.count += 1
            self.translist.append(x)
            return(maketrans(self))
        else:
            self.count += 1
            self.translist.append(x)
            return(maketrans(self))
 
alphabet = ['a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m','n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z']
encrypt1 = Encrypt(alphabet)
print(encrypt.trans)

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I get this error

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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\iStrawser\UD\CISC 106\Pythons\lab7.py", line 76, in <module>
encrypt1 = Encrypt(alphabet)
File "C:\Users\iStrawser\UD\CISC 106\Pythons\lab7.py", line 56, in __init__
self.trans = self.maketrans()
File "C:\Users\iStrawser\UD\CISC 106\Pythons\lab7.py", line 62, in maketrans
self.count += 1
AttributeError: 'Encrypt' object has no attribute 'count'

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Why can't I get a list of numbers that encode the alphabet? I'm not sure I know what to do to make a recursive function in a class.

[dwblas]

That means that it is not a member of the class, which is usually an indentation problem, but there is no way to tell since you did not hit the code tag (# at the top of the reply box) and post your code between the [code] and [/code] tags.

I'm not sure I know what to do to make a recursive function in a class

You would not use recursion here, just a loop
for letter in alphabet:
Look at the problem again and state it more clearly.

[Ian Strawser]

#

class Encrypt(object):
 #The worst object ever created
    def __init__(self,alphabet):
        self.alphabet = alphabet
        self.trans = self.maketrans()
 
    def maketrans(self,x,translist):
        r = (random.randrange(0,len(self.alphabet)))
        if(x == len(self.alphabet)):
            return(translist)
        elif(r in translist):
            r = input("enter a number, bitch")
            translist.append(x)
            return(self.maketrans(self,x + 1,translist))
        else:
            self.translist.append(x)
            return(maketrans(self,x + 1,translist))
 
alphabet = ['a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m','n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z']
encrypt1 = Encrypt(alphabet,0,[])
print(encrypt1.maketrans)
 

[dwblas]

My mistake, self.count is declared after self.maketrans() is called, which uses self.count, so just reverse these two statements in __init__.

        self.trans = self.maketrans()
        self.count = -1

Oh well, you learned how to use code tags at least.

[bvdet]

I saw a few more problems:

To call method maketrans: self.maketrans(x,translist)

The number of arguments in Encrypt._init__() do not match the call encrypt1 = Encrypt(alphabet,0,[])

'Encrypt' object has no attribute 'translist'