what is op[0]

On 17/08/2017 at 04:17, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hello,

I was just watching a quick tutorial on different ways of calculating spline length, and I came across some syntax I can't figure out:

op[0]

what does this mean?

reference useage:

On 17/08/2017 at 05:52, xxxxxxxx wrote:

that doesn't mention, let alone explain what op[0] is.
Also there is no instance in that documentation of SplineLengthData being called as SlineLengthData(anything)

On 17/08/2017 at 09:56, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Ah, completely oversaw that. Apologies.

Good question, although I believe, that this does nothing at all.
I'd say, that the constructor wrapper just filters out any arguments, that are too much.

On 17/08/2017 at 11:00, xxxxxxxx wrote:

No prob, it just confuses me! whats it for?! I'll have to try without and see what happens.

I was hoping I could figure out how to use it by just looking at that original documentation page, but I had no idea that it first needed to have an instance created with that specific syntax, or is that what ".__init__()" is supposed to represent? ..

On 17/08/2017 at 11:09, xxxxxxxx wrote:

I suggest you to read http://www.python-course.eu/python3_magic_methods.php

On 18/08/2017 at 02:31, xxxxxxxx wrote:

What op[0] does depends on what op is. It's syntactic sugar for
calling op.__getitem__(0). When you see __getitem__() in the
docs of a class, that's when you can use [] on objects of that
class. E.g. you can use it to retrieve values from a BaseContainer.

On 18/08/2017 at 06:39, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Not much left to add for me...

In Script Manager op is a predefined variable pointing to the currently selected object. So if op hasn't been reassigned in the tutorial, that's what it is.

And yes, when creating a SplineLengthData the parameter will be ignored. It's redundant in that line of the tutorial and I'd recommend to omit passing a parameter there.

On 23/08/2017 at 14:25, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Thanks everyone! Much appreciated.