Re: [Jython-users] jython, recursion and XML

[Ted B. <te...@et...>]

On Sunday 02 September 2001 03:49, Ype Kingma wrote:

>
> First off: I am not familiar with JDOM and XML, so what follows
> might be quite non relevant.

Not a problem.  Actually, I think the issue is more likely a python-related 
mistake that I'm making.  

> It seems to me that your problem might be caused by
>
>      f = InstallSetTreeModel( self )
>
> returning self instead of a newly created InstallSetTreeModel.
> Supposing this is a constructor call, why is self passed?
> In case you want a new child node (f is appended to self.children
> lateron), you might introduce a separate method for creating
> a new child node.
>

The argument is used to create a reference-to-parent in the new object, like 
so:

  def __init__( self, parent=None ):
    self.parent = parent

which is used to determine the topmost object in the tree.

ted