In the execution of your function newfunc() the first instruction dir=Test.test_setup() raise the following error:
dir=Test.test_setup()
TypeError: test_setup() missing 1 required positional argument: 'self'
This error referred to an attempt to execute a method of a class by attribute reference but it requests an argument which is in general an instance of that class.
To solve this and other errors and to try to answer to your question I think that it is enough to define save_dir as an attribute of the class Test, and after that instantiate an object of that class.
In your code saved_dir is a local variable of the method test_setup so it is not visible outside of that context.
I show you the 2 possible correct files:
File main.py
from datetime import datetime
import os
class Test():
def __init__(self):
self.new_dir = ""
self.saved_dir = ""
def test_setup(self):
#make new directory for downloads
#new_dir = r"D:\Selenium\Insights\timestamp}".format(timestamp=datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S'))
timestamp=datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S')
self.new_dir = "/home/frank/Selenium/Insights/timestamp/" + timestamp
# print(new_dir)
if not os.path.exists(self.new_dir):
os.makedirs(self.new_dir)
self.saved_dir = self.new_dir
def get_saved_dir(self):
return self.saved_dir
Pay attention: don't use directly the previous code because in main.py I have adjusted the value of new_dir according to my environment (see /home/frank/Selenium/Insights/timestamp/ instead of your D:\Selenium\Insights\timestamp).
File conftest.py:
from main import Test
def newfunc():
test_class = Test()
test_class.test_setup()
print(test_class.get_saved_dir())
newfunc()
If you want to access to the attribute saved_dir directly without the use of method get_saved_dir() (not very object oriented) the file conftest.py becomes:
from main import Test
def newfunc():
test_class = Test()
test_class.test_setup()
# access directly to attribute saved_dir (not properly Object Oriented)
print(test_class.saved_dir)
newfunc()
Accessing the attributes of a class by reference
This is a useful link (it is included in the tutorial of official Python documentation) about the access to a variable or a method of a class.
Previous link explains how to access to an attribute of a class by reference.
If we adapt this concept to this post we can access to the method test_setup of the class Test, by the following syntax:
f = Test.test_setup
If we print on the standard output the value of f we obtain:
print(f)
# this is the output
<function Test.test_setup at 0x7f93f54316a8>
and this means that f is a valid attribute reference to a function object. In particular I referred to the following sentence of the link:
MyClass.i and MyClass.f are valid attribute references, returning an integer and a function object, respectively.
