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Python Object-Oriented Python Instant Objects Your first method

Posted by James Kirk
James Kirk
3,223 Points

Using the "self" argument with methods

The challenge instructs me to use a method "praise" within the class "Student". There is also an attribute "name" within Student. The challenge is to use the praise method to print out a compliment that includes the "name" attribute but is passed the "self" argument. Any advice to help me out?

first_class.py 
class Student:
    name = "James"
    def praise(self):
        print("It would be great if {} got some help learning this.".format(self))

    praise(name)

1 Answer

Caleb Newell
Caleb Newell
12,562 Points

You are so close! In your code, in the praise function, you are using print. The code challenge says: "I need you to add a method name praise. The method should return a positive message about the student which includes the name attribute."

All you got to do is change your code to return instead of print. Hope this helps! :

like this,

class Student:
    name = "Your_name_here"

    def praise(self):
        return "You inspire me, {}".format(self.name)