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Python Object-Oriented Python Instant Objects Your first class

part 2 of first_class.py

So, the first part was straight forward. All you have to do is:

class Student: name = 'Tony'

However, the lecture didn't go into much depth about creating the instance, which in this case, is the instance me

first_class.py
class Student:
    name = 'Tony'

1 Answer

If you have a class called frog, you might declare it as:

class frog:
    jumping = "high"

Then we might create an object (an instance of the class) very simply:

mrfrog = Frog()

So, in your class you would create one by calling Student() and you store that in me