Getting __init__ variable

class, function, object, python, variables

Solution

You cannot. `direction` is a local variable of the `__init__` function, and an such not available outside of that function.

The variable is not used at all even; it could be removed from the function and nothing would change.

The `__init__` method is intended to set attributes on the newly created instance, but your `second` class seems to want to find the attributes on the `first` class instead. You cannot do that either, as those attributes you want to access are only set in `__init__`. You can only find `position` on instances of `first`, not on the `first` class itself.

Perhaps you wanted to initialize the parent class first, and actually store `position` on `self`:

class first(object):
    def __init__(self, room, speed):
        self.position = room
        self.speed = 20
        self.direction = random.randint(0,359)

class second(first):
    def __init__(self, room, speed)
        super(second, self).__init__(room, speed)
        self.way = self.direction
        self.now = self.position

Now `self` has the `direction` and `position` attributes defined and your `second.__init__` function can access those there.

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