python object() takes no parameters error [closed]

Question

I can't believe this is actually a problem, but I've been trying to debug this error and I've gotten nowhere. I'm sure I'm missing something really simple because this seems so silly.

import Experiences, Places, Countries class Experience(object):      def make_place(self, place):         addr = place["address"]         addr = Places.ttypes.Address(addr["street"], addr["city"], addr["state"], Countries.ttypes._NAMES_TO_VALUES[addr["country"]], addr["zipcode"])         ll = Geocoder.geocode(addr["street"]+", "+addr["city"]+", "+addr["state"]+" "+addr["zipcode"])         place["location"] = Places.ttypes.Location(ll[0].coordinates[0], ll[0].coordinates[1])      def __init__(self, exp_dict):         exp_dict["datetimeInterval"] = Experiences.ttypes.DateTimeInterval(remove(exp_dict, "startTime"), remove(exp_dict, "endTime"))         exp_dict["type"] = Experiences.ttypes.ExperienceType.OPEN         exp_dict["place"] = self.make_place(exp_dict["place"])         self.obj = Experiences.ttypes.Experience(**exp_dict)  @client.request @client.catchClientException def addExperience(thrift, access_token, exp_dict):     experience = Experience(exp_dict)     return thrift.client.addExperience(thrift.CLIENT_KEY, access_token, experience.obj) 

(The two decorators corresponding to addExperience are because this is defined outside of the file where its class is declared.)

The error I'm getting is:

experience = Experience(exp_dict) TypeError: object() takes no parameters 

So this doesn't make any sense to me because I'm clearly declaring a second argument to the init function. Any help would be awesome!

Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/Users/phil/Hangify/hy-frontend-server/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1836, in __call__     return self.wsgi_app(environ, start_response)   File "/Users/phil/Hangify/hy-frontend-server/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1820, in wsgi_app     response = self.make_response(self.handle_exception(e))   File "/Users/phil/Hangify/hy-frontend-server/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1403, in handle_exception     reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)   File "/Users/phil/Hangify/hy-frontend-server/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1817, in wsgi_app     response = self.full_dispatch_request()   File "/Users/phil/Hangify/hy-frontend-server/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1477, in full_dispatch_request     rv = self.handle_user_exception(e)   File "/Users/phil/Hangify/hy-frontend-server/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1381, in handle_user_exception     reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)   File "/Users/phil/Hangify/hy-frontend-server/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1475, in full_dispatch_request     rv = self.dispatch_request()   File "/Users/phil/Hangify/hy-frontend-server/env/lib/python2.7/site-    packages/flask/app.py", line 1461, in dispatch_request     return self.view_functions[rule.endpoint](**req.view_args)   File "/Users/phil/Hangify/hy-frontend-server/hangify/session.py", line 22, in check_login     return f()   File "/Users/phil/Hangify/hy-frontend-server/hangify/handlers/create.py", line 31, in Handle     res = exp.addExperience(hangify.thrift_interface, access_token, experience)   File "/Users/phil/Hangify/hy-frontend-server/hangify/client/__init__.py", line 22, in decorator     obj = func(client, *args, **kwargs)   File "/Users/phil/Hangify/hy-frontend-server/hangify/client/__init__.py", line 30, in decorator     return func(*args, **kwargs)   File "/Users/phil/Hangify/hy-frontend-server/hangify/client/exp.py", line 39, in addExperience     experience = Experience(exp_dict) TypeError: object() takes no parameters 

Here is Experience.mro() - which says the correct module-wise location of the class Experience:

[<class 'hangify.client.exp.Experience'>, <type 'object'>] 

And here is dir(Experience):

 ['__class__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__doc__', '__format__',  '__getattribute__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__module__', '__new__',  '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__',  '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__', '__weakref__', 'make_place'] 

Answer 1

You've mixed tabs and spaces. __init__ is actually defined nested inside another method, so your class doesn't have its own __init__ method, and it inherits object.__init__ instead. Open your code in Notepad instead of whatever editor you're using, and you'll see your code as Python's tab-handling rules see it.

This is why you should never mix tabs and spaces. Stick to one or the other. Spaces are recommended.