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Python Object-Oriented Python Instant Objects Your first method

Sabine Lazuhina
Sabine Lazuhina
2,334 Points
Posted by Sabine Lazuhina
Sabine Lazuhina
2,334 Points

why does it tell me to add 'self' to my praise method? I've added it already!

I am struggling with my class method definition. It says I should add 'self' to my method. I can't imagine where i else i could add it!

first_class.py 
class Student(object):
    def __init__(self,name):
        self.name = "Sabine"

    def praise (self):
        print ("You're doing a great job, {}!".format(self.name))

2 Answers

Ari Misha
Ari Misha
19,323 Points
Ari Misha
Ari Misha
19,323 Points

hiya there! First off, be very vigilant about keeping the code precise as the challenge asked you to, Otherwise you'd be wondering for a long time about what was wrong about mine code. Secondly, challenge explicitly asked you to return, not print. Thirdly, the challenge never said anything about using __init__() method. Hence, here is how your code should look like:

class Student:
    name = "Your Name"

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

I hope it helped! (:

~ Ari