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Python Object-Oriented Python Instant Objects Your first class

Posted by Emily Sue
Emily Sue
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don't understand

I'm not sure what i'm suppose to do here with the instance

first_class.py 
class Student:
    name = "Tinkerbell"
    instance.name()
print(name)

1 Answer

Joey Bruijns
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Joey Bruijns
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Joey Bruijns
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Joey Bruijns
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 47,878 Points

Hi Emily,

You can create an instance of a class like this:

me = Student()

Now 'me' is an instance, so it has access to all the attributes and methods from the Student class. So to print out the name attribute of this instance you can do it like this:

class Student:
    name = "Tinkerbell"

me = Student()
print(me.name)