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Python Object-Oriented Python Instant Objects Your first class

Posted by Miranda Chen
Miranda Chen
6,945 Points

Help with Object-Oriented Python challenge task 2

It says to make an instance of your class named me and then print() out the name attribute of your instance. I am honestly not sure what to do. Please help.

Thank you in advance

first_class.py 
class Student:
    name = "AA"
    me = Student()
    print(name)

1 Answer

Mehdi SEHLOULI
Mehdi SEHLOULI
21,801 Points

first, we don't create an instance of the class inside the class second, make sure you use the name of your instance to get to the name attribute.

here you go:

class Student:
    name = "AA"


me = Student()
print(me.name)
Miranda Chen
Miranda Chen
6,945 Points

Great thank you so much! I figured it out now.

Manuel Canario
Manuel Canario
1,458 Points
Manuel Canario
Manuel Canario
1,458 Points

Can someone explain besides that the challenge ask to create me = Student() what is the purpose of making a second connection name.student vs me.name do I need to assign a variable to the class & attribute to be able to use it??

Mehdi SEHLOULI
Mehdi SEHLOULI
21,801 Points

In the example, you have the class 'Student', which represents the methods and attributes of any object that will be an instance of it. so, the object 'me' is an instance of the 'Student' class, then for sure 'me' has an attribute called 'name'. I hope this is the answer you're looking for.