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Python Write Better Python Cleaner Code Docstrings

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Add a docstring to Treehouse.student. It should say "Gives a pleasant message about the student.". I just can't understand the whole thing here, have tried to replay the video several times.... can you help???

starter.py
class Treehouse:
    def student(self, name):
        return '{} is a great Treehouse student!'.format(name)
def Treehouse.student(arg):
    """Gives a pleasant message about the student""" 
        return arg

2 Answers

hie wellington. firstly you don't need to add any function, what that statement is simply saying by Treehouse.student that "the student function of the Treehouse class" which is what we already have. secondly you need to add your docstring before the return to explain what the function returns like so

class Treehouse:

def student(self, name):

    """Gives a pleasant message about the student."""

    return '{} is a great Treehouse student!'.format(name)

thank you Chenai i was really cracking m head

glad I could help, don't forget to upvote

hie wellington. firstly you don't need to add any function, what that statement is simply saying by Treehouse.student that "the student function of the Treehouse class" which is what we already have. secondly you need to add your docstring before the return to explain what the function returns like so

class Treehouse:

def student(self, name):

    """Gives a pleasant message about the student."""

    return '{} is a great Treehouse student!'.format(name)