On Thursday, 17 August 2017 09:03:59 UTC+10, Ian wrote: wrote: > > Morning > > > > I haven't ventured into classes much before. When trying to follow some > > examples and create my own classes in a jupyter notebook I receive an error > > that the class is undefined. > > > > So I created for practise a frog class > > > > class frog(object): > > > > def __init__(self, ftype, word): > > self.ftype = ftype > > self.word = ftype > > > > def jump(self): > > """ > > Make frog jump > > """ > > return "I am jumping" > > > > if __name__ == "__main__": > > tree_frog = frog("Tree Frog", "Ribbitt") > > print(frog.ftype) > > print(frog.word) > > > > > > I receive this error > > > > NameError Traceback (most recent call last) > > <ipython-input-1-609567219688> in <module>() > > ----> 1 class frog(object): > > 2 > > 3 def __init__(self, ftype, word): > > 4 self.ftype = ftype > > 5 self.word = ftype > > > > <ipython-input-1-609567219688> in frog() > > 12 > > 13 if __name__ == "__main__": > > ---> 14 tree_frog = frog("Tree Frog", "Ribbitt") > > 15 print(frog.ftype) > > 16 print(frog.word) > > > > NameError: name 'frog' is not defined > > > > what exactly am I doing wrong? > > The if __name__ == "__main__" block is inside the class declaration > block, so at the point that it runs the class has not been created > yet. Try removing the indentation to place it after the class block > instead.
Thank you that had me bugged I just couldn't see it. Cheers Sayth -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list