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Python Object-Oriented Python Instant Objects __init__

Posted by marcolamoon
marcolamoon
16,915 Points

HELP with challenge!!

Our Student class is coming along nicely!

I'd like to be able to set the name attribute at the same time that I create an instance. Can you add the code for doing that? Remember, you'll need to override the init method.

first_class.py 
class Student:
    name = "Your Name"

      def __init__(self, name=None, **kwargs):
        super(Student,self).__init__()
        self["name"]=name
        for key, value in kwargs.items():
            setattr(self,key,value)

    def praise(self):
        return "You inspire me, {}".format(self.name)

    def reassurance(self):
        return "Chin up, {}. You'll get it next time!".format(self.name)

    def feedback(self, grade):
        if grade > 50:
            return self.praise()
        return self.reassurance()

3 Answers

Jeanette Brown
Jeanette Brown
20,485 Points
Jeanette Brown
Jeanette Brown
20,485 Points

For anyone who needs help this worked for me

class Student:
    name = "Your Name"


    def __init__(self, name= "Your Name", **kwarg):
        self.name = name

        for key, value in kwarg.items():
            setattr(self, key, value)

    def praise(self):
        return "You inspire me, {}".format(self.name)

    def reassurance(self):
        return "Chin up, {}. You'll get it next time!".format(self.name)

    def feedback(self, grade):
        if grade > 50:
            return self.praise()
        return self.reassurance()
AJ Salmon
AJ Salmon
5,675 Points
AJ Salmon
AJ Salmon
5,675 Points

For task one, you won't need kwargs in your init. You just want to have name in there, so that when someone creates an instance of the class, the name attribute is set to whatever is passed to the class when it's created. You can use name=None, or simply name, in the parameter of init. It should result in this output:

>>> marcolamoon = Student('Marco')
>>> marcolamoon.name
'Marco'

(You can test this in workspaces)

Matt Fredericks
Matt Fredericks
5,399 Points
Matt Fredericks
Matt Fredericks
5,399 Points

I think this is the only part which was required for task 1 of 2 def init(self, name= "Your name"): self.name = name