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Python Object-Oriented Python Instant Objects Your first method

Posted by Krishnan Sampath
Krishnan Sampath
Courses Plus Student 1,115 Points

I have doubt in Challenge Task

This class should look familiar!

First, I need you to add a method named praise to the Student class. It should take the self argument. Then, inside the praise method, return a positive message about the student using the name attribute.

As an example, it could say "You're doing a great job, Jacinta!" or "I really like your hair today, Michael!".

Feel free to change the name attribute to your own name, too!

first_class.py 
class Student:
    name = "Your Name"

    def praise(self):
        print("You're doing a great job, Jacinta!",self.name)
obj=Student()
obj.praise()
Krishnan Sampath
Krishnan Sampath
Courses Plus Student 1,115 Points

I am getting the below error message

Oh no! You forgot the self argument in your praise method

Please let me know what is wrong in the above code

1 Answer

volhaka
volhaka
9,875 Points
volhaka
volhaka
9,875 Points

There are several mistakes in your code.

  1. method should return message, not print message.

  2. Your message is not correct. You should use self.name as a part of message instead of Jacinta . There are several ways to do that:

f-string 

f"You're doing a great job, {self.name}!"

or format

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