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Python Object-Oriented Python Instant Objects __init__

Posted by Laone Moshana
Laone Moshana
4,082 Points

methods that take parameters other than self,task challenge

i do not understand what am suppose to do

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

    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()

class Students:
    def--init--(self,name,praise,reaasurance, **kwargs):
        self.name=name
        self.praise=praise

1 Answer

James Joseph
James Joseph
4,885 Points
James Joseph
James Joseph
4,885 Points

So in the challenge you only have one class, Student

What he's asking you to do is to intialize the name when you create a class. To do this you need to set up the init at the start of the class

class Student:
    def __init__(self):

See if you can figure out the rest :) if you get stuck I can give you a hand further on that.

The next is he wants to have the option of creating new attributes in the init incase he forgets something. You do this by adding **kwargs to the init and then also using setattr,

class Student:
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):

Have a look at how setattr works in the docs here: https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#setattr

If you get stuck let me know and I'll explain how to get it done.