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Abigail Solomon
Data Analysis Techdegree Student 4,440 PointsName Error: name 'User' is not defined. I cannot add my name to the userbase because of this error.
I'm currently working on the SQLAlchemy course and my file won't update with my name because of this name error, however I copied what Megan did during her demonstration and I'm not sure what could have been wrong. It's supposed to follow the format of the repr(self) function in the models.py, so I'm not sure what went wrong for me. I'm using the Treehouse console. This is the line of code that got the error: abi_user = User(name='Abigail', fullname='Abigail Solomon', nickname='Abi').
Here's the full code:
from sqlalchemy import create_engine, Column, Integer, String from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
engine = create_engine('sqlite:///users.db', echo=True) Session = sessionmaker(bind=engine) session = Session() Base = declarative_base()
class User(Base): tablename = 'users'
id = Column(Integer, primary_key = True) name = Column(String) fullname = Column(String) nickname = Column(String)
def repr(self): return f'<User(name={self.name}, fullname={self.fullname}, nickname={self.nickname})>'
if name == 'main': Base.metadata.create_all(engine)
abi_user = User(name='Abigail', fullname='Abigail Solomon', nickname='Abi')
print(abi_user.name)
print(abi_user.id)
session.add(abi_user)
print(session.new)
1 Answer

Travis Alstrand
Treehouse Project ReviewerIt's hard to tell without seeing everything, but if you're getting a User is not defined
error, that's in regards to that User class. I would ensure that you're importing it correctly.
If you continue to be stuck on this, could you please provide all the code in this file and a link to the video please?
Abigail Solomon
Data Analysis Techdegree Student 4,440 PointsAbigail Solomon
Data Analysis Techdegree Student 4,440 PointsI just edited the question with my entire code, hope this helps in you helping me out!