Learning OOP FAIL (on passing variables)

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Hi, I'm trying to learn OOP, and I've run into a problem. I am supposed to have the user create a user name, and then I'm supposed to import a list of movies for the user to rate. I created a class called Movie. The function within is supposed to create a list of all the movies in the file. However, when I try to use the list in the rateMovie() function, the list is empty. I highlighted what IDLE says is my problematic bit of code. Any ideas of what I'm doing wrong?

#! /usr/bin/python

__author__="***"
__date__ ="***"

class User(object):
	
	def __init__(self):
		self.userName= ''
		self.ratings= '' #empty strings to store user inputted ratings and userName
		
	def enterName(self):
		import string
		self.userName=raw_input('Enter a new user name.\n')
		try:
			userFile=open('output.txt', 'r+a')
			users=map(string.strip, userFile.readlines())
			n=0
			while n < len(users):
				if self.userName==users[n]:
					print "I'm sorry that user name has been taken."
					return self.enterName()

				else:
					n+=1
		except:		
			userFile=open('output.txt', 'w')
		userFile.close() 
		
	def rateMovie(self):
		try:
			userFile=open('output.txt', 'r')
		except:
			print "File output.txt could not be found."
			
	        movie=Movie().getMovies().movieList	
		n=0
		
		print 'Hello ' + self.userName +'. Welcome to MyFlix. To create user suggestions, MyFlix would like you to rate the following movies using our 5-star system.\n Enter 5 for "loved it"\n 4 for "liked it"\n 3 for "okay"\n 2 for "didn\'t like it"\n 1 for "hated it"\n or 0 for "haven\'t seen it"'
		print movie
		for line in movie:
			userInput=raw_input('Enter a rating 0-5 for ' + movie[n] + '\n')
			if 0<=userInput<=5:
				self.ratings.append(userInput)
				n+=1
			else:
				print "Invalid input. Try again."
				return
		userFile.close()
		
	def outputUserData(self):
		userFile=open('output.txt', 'a')
		userFile.write(self.userName + self.ratings + '\n')
		userFile.close()
				
		
class Movie(object):
	
	def __init__(self):
		self.movieList= []
			
	def getMovies(self):
		movieFile=open('moviestorate.txt', 'r')	
		for line in movieFile:
			self.movieList.append(line)	
		movieFile.close()
		
	def recommendMovie(self):
		pass
		#Code to recommend movie to user

		
def myFlix():
	newUser=User()
	newUser.enterName()
	newUser.rateMovie()
	newUser.outputUserData()
	
	
	
myFlix()

[cghtkh]

getMovies() does not return the object instance.
You can try to break out into the code below.

movie=Movie()
movie.getMovies()
movielist = movie.movieList

[griswolf]

You are going to have trouble here, too:

userInput=raw_input('Enter a rating 0-5 for ' + movie[n] + '\n')
      if 0<=userInput<=5:

The return from raw_input is a string, not an integer. You need the line to be userInput=int(raw_input('Enter a rating 0-5 for ' + movie[n] + '\n'))

P.S. I don't know how you managed to get indented text for your code without line numbers. Next time, please use the (CODE) button to place (CODE) and (/CODE) tags around your code, because that not only protects indentation, but adds keyword highlighting and line numbers.

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Thanks! That really helped. I didn't notice the code button before, so I just typed it in around my code (possibly incorrectly), perhaps that's why there were no number lines. I'll certainly keep it in mind next time.