Why is my class undefined?
Sayth Renshaw
flebber.crue at gmail.com
Wed Aug 16 21:02:48 EDT 2017
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
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