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Python Object-Oriented Python Instant Objects Your first class

Posted by Paul Mc Gonigle
Paul Mc Gonigle
2,606 Points

How does one make an instance from a class?

Really stuck with this task as i do not fully understand instances yet? Can anybody help me? The question is "Great work!

Now, make an instance of your class named me.

Then print() out the name attribute of your instance"

first_class.py 
class Student:
    name = 'paul'

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,198 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,198 Points

The syntax for making an instance looks the same as assigning the result of calling a function to a variable:

me = Student()
Paul Mc Gonigle
Paul Mc Gonigle
2,606 Points

Okay Steven, thank you.

Ricardo Büttner
Ricardo Büttner
2,426 Points
Ricardo Büttner
Ricardo Büttner
2,426 Points

Hey Steven, I got up to that point. But then how do you print out the name attribute of your instance?

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,198 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,198 Points

Using the membership operator (a period) you can access an attribute of a class ("me.name"). Then just pass that as the argument in a "print" function call.