My code is working in my own environment, but not here. The error is about self, which I used correctly.

Question

This is my code.

class Student: name = "Maryam"

def praise(self, st):
    if st in self.name:
        msg = "You're doing a great job, Maryam!"
        return msg
    return False

What is wrong with it?

first_class.py

class Student:
    name = "Maryam"

    def praise(self, st):
        if st in self.name:
            msg = "You're doing a great job, Maryam!"
            return msg

Answer 1 · 2019-07-29T10:44:09Z

July 29, 2019 10:44am

Well it is because you are going about it in a way they don't want you to. When coding it is a good idea to remember the acronym KISS, Keep It Simple Stupid. When learning new things you can often over complicate them when the best solution is the simpler one.

class Student:
    name = "Your Name"

    def praise(self):
        return "You are doing a great job {}!".format(self.name)

All you have to do is return a string saying something encouraging and including the name, since we are using a method we can't access name without using self, since it belongs to the class. You can't hardcode your name in their, the treehouse interpreter is looking to see you passing in the self.name to the return statement somewhere, it can't tell what is or isn't a name, it only sees a string and that you aren't passing it what you need to, self.name

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Maryam Bahrami

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My code is working in my own environment, but not here. The error is about self, which I used correctly.

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Josh Keenan

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