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Python Object-Oriented Python Instant Objects Your first class

Eldin Guzin
Eldin Guzin
6,010 Points
Posted by Eldin Guzin
Eldin Guzin
6,010 Points

First class challenge

I do not understand what it wants me to do...How do you make an "instance" ??

first_class.py 
class Student:
    name = "Eldin"

1 Answer

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,967 Points

From the python docs

Class instantiation uses function notation. Just pretend that the class object is a parameterless function that returns a new instance of the class. For example (assuming the above class):

x = MyClass()

creates a new instance of the class and assigns this object to the local variable x.

One analogy often given is to think of a class as a blueprint and an instance of the class as an object created using that blueprint.