I am working on this challenge 2 of 2 and it is asking to use .format to pass and my return isnt working

You are really close but in your last answer to this question, you are trying to return hours(...). hours, in this scope is not a defined variable. hours is the name of your method on your Store class. Once this method has been called/invoked, you don't need to return hours(). You're already in the method, just build your formatted string and return it.

class Store:
    open = 9
    close = 9

Starting out very simply, we create a Store class with two properties for open and close. This part you have correct.

class Store:
    open = 9
    close = 9

    def hours(self):
        return "We're open from {} to {}".format(self.open, self.close)

The hours method simply needs to return a formatted string making sure to reference open/close properties from self.

I believe that you are misunderstanding how the hours method will be called, so maybe an example of the Store class in use would make more sense.

store = Store()

Here you create an instance of your Store object named store. From this store instance, you want to print out the store hours somewhere in your code. To do this, you simply call the hours method on your store instance.

print(store.hours())
>>> "We're open from 9 to 9."

I think you're not too far off...

There is a problem with the:

return self.hours = ...

Also you're not using the properties of the current object with: format(open, close). It should be:

format(self.open, self.close)

You can't really return an assignment, so just return the .format()-ed string.

And, like David Bouchare pointed out, you'll need to use self on those instance attributes.

This is befuddling.

class Store: open = 9 close = 9

def hours: return hours ("We're open from {} to {}.").format(self.open, self.close)

For the life of me, I can't understand why this code isn't working!

I figured it out!!!!!!!!!!! Thank all of you guys for all the help!