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Python Object-Oriented Python Instant Objects Your first method

Posted by Alice Giandjian
Alice Giandjian
3,636 Points

Object-Oriented Python First Class

I'm not sure why this isn't working? What am I doing wrong?

first_class.py 
class Student:
    name = "Alice"

    def praise(self):
        pos = "You're doing a great job, {}".format(self)
        return pos 

me = Student() 
praise(me)

1 Answer

Thomas Harris
Thomas Harris
7,647 Points
Thomas Harris
Thomas Harris
7,647 Points

Hi Alice!

When you instantiate the class with me = Student() you then use the 'me' instance (variable) to call the functions in the class. Also, this snippet does not print anything; you could do that a couple of different ways, but this should do the trick:

class Student:
    name = "Alice"

    def praise(self):
        pos = "You're doing a great job, {}".format(self.name)
        return pos 

me = Student() 
print(me.praise())
Thomas Harris
Thomas Harris
7,647 Points
Thomas Harris
Thomas Harris
7,647 Points

Oh and you need to format with your string with self.name to reference the 'name' attribute in the praise() function ;)

Alice Giandjian
Alice Giandjian
3,636 Points

thank you so much! that makes sense!