var = twint.storage.panda.Tweets_df. What is this?-CodePudding

I'm new with Python and I'm using Twint. In order to create a DataFrame from the scraped twits, I must run the following code:

c = twint.Config()
c.Hide_output = output

twint.run.Search(c)

Tweets_df = twint.storage.panda.Tweets_df

The thing is that I don't understand what type of action is performing the twint.storage.panda.Tweets_df line. It seems that it creates a DataFrame object. In fact, Tweets_df is a pandas.core.frame.DataFrame instance, but that's not the way (as far as I know) to create objects from a class. I mean: I was expecting to see that expression with parentheses; something like var = pd.DataFrame(). So... what's going on?

Thank you very much

CodePudding user response：

in twint.storage.panda Tweets_df is initially set to a None value it is likely that it is set to the value of a the object you're talking about at a later point in the code. So the code would look something like this.

#Our code module
data1 = None

class ourClass:
    def __init__(self):
       self.some_data = 0

data1 = ourClass()

then when we

import ourCode

variable = ourCode.data1
variable2 = ourCode.data1

we end up with variable and variable2 referencing the same object.

Link to twint source code
https://github.com/twintproject/twint/blob/master/twint/storage/panda.py