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<blockquote data-quote="struppigel" data-source="post: 990392" data-attributes="member: 86910">[ATTACH=full]266995[/ATTACH]This is the constructor of a Python class named EncryptHD. Do you know how classes generally work?The constructor builds one object of this class.To be specific:When the main code does this:&nbsp; encryption_mgr = EncryptHD(key)it will execute the __init__ function, passing the already generated key to it.The key is saved in the object to be used for later calls on its functions like encrypt_hd and get_aes_encryption and so on.parent_dir = &#039;C:\\Users&#039; is a default value that will be used if no other value is present. This is the case here, so for any operations on parent_dir in the EncryptHD functions, it will do them on &#039;C:\\Users&#039;. If you wanted to change this in the code, it would look like EncryptHD(key, &#039;C:\\MyNewPathToEncrypt&#039;)Example:[CODE=python]# this encrypts C:\\Users and all subdirectories using key1encryption_mgr1 = EncryptHD(key1)encryption_mgr1.encrypt_hd()# this encrypts &#039;C:\\MyNewPathToEncrypt&#039; and all subdirectories using a different key now, namely key2encryption_mgr2 = EncryptHD(key2, &#039;C:\\MyNewPathToEncrypt&#039;)encryption_mgr2.encrypt_hd()# this code now decrypts C:\\Users and all subdirectories using key1encryption_mgr1.decrypt_hd()# this code now decrypts &#039;C:\\MyNewPathToEncrypt&#039; and all subdirectories using key2encryption_mgr1.decrypt_hd()[/CODE]You can imagine the constructor as something where you set your settings for all the operations later on that are done with that object (encryption_mgr1 is an object here and encryption_mgr2 is another object here).Does this answer your question?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="struppigel, post: 990392, member: 86910"] [ATTACH type="full" alt="initpython.png"]266995[/ATTACH] This is the constructor of a Python class named EncryptHD. Do you know how classes generally work? The constructor builds one object of this class. To be specific: When the main code does this: encryption_mgr = EncryptHD(key) it will execute the[B] __init__[/B] function, passing the already generated[B] key [/B]to it. The key is saved in the object to be used for later calls on its functions like [B]encrypt_hd[/B] and [B]get_aes_encryption[/B] and so on. [B]parent_dir = 'C:\\Users'[/B] is a default value that will be used if no other value is present. This is the case here, so for any operations on parent_dir in the EncryptHD functions, it will do them on [B]'C:\\Users'[/B]. If you wanted to change this in the code, it would look like [B]EncryptHD(key, 'C:\\MyNewPathToEncrypt') Example:[/B] [CODE=python]# this encrypts C:\\Users and all subdirectories using key1 encryption_mgr1 = EncryptHD(key1) encryption_mgr1.encrypt_hd() # this encrypts 'C:\\MyNewPathToEncrypt' and all subdirectories using a different key now, namely key2 encryption_mgr2 = EncryptHD(key2, 'C:\\MyNewPathToEncrypt') encryption_mgr2.encrypt_hd() # this code now decrypts C:\\Users and all subdirectories using key1 encryption_mgr1.decrypt_hd() # this code now decrypts 'C:\\MyNewPathToEncrypt' and all subdirectories using key2 encryption_mgr1.decrypt_hd()[/CODE] You can imagine the constructor as something where you set your settings for all the operations later on that are done with that object (encryption_mgr1 is an object here and encryption_mgr2 is another object here). Does this answer your question? [/QUOTE]

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