How do I access and print members in my instance?

Question

I think I created my instance correctly.. not sure how to print out the name value though.

first_class.py

class Student:
    name = 'John'

Student() = me

Answer 1 · 2019-12-14T20:11:04Z

December 14, 2019 8:11pm

To create an instance, the new instance name goes on the left of the assignment, and the class name followed by parentheses goes on the right.

Then to access a property, you can use the membership operator (.) between the instance and property names.

Answer 2 · 2019-12-14T19:10:15Z

December 14, 2019 7:10pm

You have a little mistake in what you are doing. You defined your class fine, but you are not creating the instance correctly.

It is true that calling Student() will create an instance of your class. But how do you assign that to me?

Think about it. If you wanted to set me equal to five, you would do: me = 5

So, if you want to set me equal to whatever was returned by Student(), how would you do that?

Once me is set correctly, where will the value of name be? It will be inside me, so me.name

Let us know if that isn't enough.

Answer 3 · 2019-12-15T17:30:21Z

December 15, 2019 5:30pm

Thank you both I was able to spot my mistake!

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