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Python Object-Oriented Python Instant Objects Your first class

Posted by John P
John P
1,147 Points

challenge task 2 of 2: why isn't this working?

Python Object-Oriented Python challenge task 2 of 2:

class Student:
    self.name = 'John'
    self.name = 'me'
    print(self.name)
first_class.py 
class Student:
    self.name = 'John'
    self.name = 'me'
    print(self.name)
John P
John P
1,147 Points

Thank you Behar!

behar
behar
10,799 Points

No problem John. You can mark the question as "Solved" by sellecting a "Best answer"

1 Answer

behar
behar
10,799 Points
behar
behar
10,799 Points

Hey John! You are slightly off track here. You dont need the self anywhere in this challenge. First of all the challenge tells you to make an attribute "name" and set it to your name. Youve done that correctly aside from the fact that you dont need a self. Secondly it wants you to make an instance of the Student class and assign it to the variable me. You have assigned an invalid variable self.name to the string "me"? Lastly it wants you to print the name attribute of the instance me. And this should be unindented as its not a part of the class. This was kinda hard to explain tho, so it might be easier to just see the code.

class Student:
    name = "Lucas"
me = Student()
print(me.name)

Hope this helps, please feel free to comment if you need more assistance!