python init方法调用时间_Python-从类init方法调用函数时未定义全局名称

我是Python新手，正在开发一个类来存储关于书籍的有意义的数据片段。我已经开始如下：class BookDisplay:

def __init__(self, _name, _isbn, _price, _picture, _link):

self.name = _name

self.isbn = _isbn

self.price = _price

self.picture = _picture

self.link = _link

self.xmlString = MakeXMLString(_name, _isbn, _price, _picture, _link)

name = ""

isbn = ""

price = 0.0

picture = "" #a URL

link = ""

xmlString = ""

我以为这个__init__方法只能够调用MakeXMLString，我在同一个文件(bookdisplay.py)中定义了它，就在BookDisplay类的下面：def MakeXMLString(_name, _isbn, _price, _picture, _link): #python multi-line syntax

xmlString = "" + _name + "" \

+ "" + _isbn + "" \

+ "" + str(_price) + "" \

+ "" + _picture + "" \

+ "" + _link + ""

return xmlString

最初，我实际上将MakeXMLString作为类中的一个方法，如下所示：def MakeXMLString(self):

self.xmlString = "" + self.name + "" \

+ "" + self.isbn + "" \

+ "" + str(self.price) + "" \

+ "" + self.picture + "" \

+ "" + self.link + ""

在这种情况下，__init__包含此调用：self.xmlString = self.MakeXMLString()

在这两种情况下，当尝试从另一个文件实例化BookDisplay时：from bookdisplay import BookDisplay

...

...

thumbnails = []

...

thumbnails.append(BookDisplay(titleField, "-1", float(priceField), imgField, linkField))

…我收到以下全局名称错误(此回溯尤其针对不在类内的函数)：Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 1, in

File "search.py", line 30, in ebaySearch

handleDocument(doc)

File "search.py", line 59, in handleDocument

handleItems(items, outputFile)

File "search.py", line 102, in handleItems

thumbnails.append(BookDisplay(titleField, "-1", float(priceField), imgField, linkField))

File "bookdisplay.py", line 15, in __init__

self.xmlString = MakeXMLString(_name, _isbn, _price, _picture, _link)

NameError: global name 'MakeXMLString' is not defined

我错过了什么？据我所知，MakeXMLString对类是完全可访问的。