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Marlon Card
16,394 PointsWe're not supposed to use 'open' as a python variable are we?
I'm doing the python Objects challenge and I have to assign 'open' as an attribute of a class. It pretty much fails because open is not specifically a reserved keyword but it conflicts. Am I correct?
class Store:
open = 8
close = 4
def hours(self):
return "We're open from {} to {}.".format(open, close)
3 Answers
Stone Preston
42,016 Pointsuse self.open and self.close. you need to refer to the open and close properties of an instance of the Store class
class Store:
open = 8
close = 4
def hours(self):
return "We're open from {} to {}.".format(self.open, self.close)
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherNothing is actually reserved in Python. I can create a variable with any name I want and, if it conflicts with a built-in, I just don't have access to that built-in anymore. The problem with your code, as Stone Preston pointed out, the problem with your code is that you didn't reference them with self. since they belong to the instance.
Marlon Card
16,394 PointsYup, I see that, thanks for the help Stone and Kenneth!