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February 23, 2021 at 10:06 am
#1911
Keymaster
Let me put this another way. In your code example, you let the definition of car
directly follow the class definition. I mean the line car = Car()
.
If you copy-paste or enter it like that in the REPL, it won’t work. You need to keep hitting enter after the class definition (effectively two times) until you get a new prompt (the >>>
). So if I do this on my pc, it looks like this:
Python 3.8.5 (default, Jul 28 2020, 12:59:40) [GCC 9.3.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> class Car: ... speed = 0 ... started = False ... ... def start(self): ... self.started = True ... print("Car started, let's ride!") ... ... def increase_speed(self, delta): ... if self.started: ... self.speed = self.speed + delta ... print('Vrooooom!') ... else: ... print("You need to start the car first") ... ... def stop(self): ... self.speed = 0 ... print('Halting') ... >>> car = Car() >>> car.increase_speed(10) You need to start the car first >>>
As mentioned below, I’d suggest staying away from files for now and try to get this working in the REPL first.
Hope that clears it up!