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Python Build a Social Network with Flask Making Strong Users What's a method like you doing in a class like this?

Posted by michaelangelo owildeberry
michaelangelo owildeberry
18,172 Points

why is this not passing? please help =)

Challenge Task 1 of 2

Add a @classmethod to User named new. It should take two arguments, email and password. The body of the method can be pass for now. Remember, @classmethods take cls as the first argument. ... why is this not passing? please help =)

models.py 
import datetime

from flask.ext.bcrypt import generate_password_hash
from flask.ext.login import UserMixin
from peewee import *

database = SqliteDatabase(':memory:')

class User(Model):
    email = CharField(unique=True)
    password = CharField(max_length=100)
    join_date = DateTimeField(default=datetime.datetime.now)
    bio = CharField(default='')

    class Meta:
        database = database   

    @classmethod
      def new(email, password);
    pass
michaelangelo owildeberry
michaelangelo owildeberry
18,172 Points

Challenge Task 1 of 2

Add a @classmethod to User named new. It should take two arguments, email and password. The body of the method can be pass for now. Remember, @classmethods take cls as the first argument.

3 Answers

qasimalbaqali
qasimalbaqali
17,839 Points

You forgot the cls as the first argument and you used a semi colon instead. So it should look like

@classmethod
def new(cls, email, password):
    pass
Kenneth Love
STAFF
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

You don't need to indent the method past the decorator. You also didn't give a body to your method and method blocks start with a colon, :, not a semicolon, ;. And, finally, you didn't provide an argument for the class.

Tafadzwa Timothy Gakaka
Tafadzwa Timothy Gakaka
10,978 Points

Kenneth can you post the full code

Andrew Winkler
Andrew Winkler
37,739 Points
Andrew Winkler
Andrew Winkler
37,739 Points

Trying the code above only got me indentation errors. After reviewing Kenneth's comments, I got this to work though:

    @classmethod
    def new(cls, email, password):
      pass

Indentation errors begone!