Methods

[infernoblaze]

Both status and title are properties of class Book. In your code you change one of these properties and I just suggest that you should change the other one.

Is it like this?

# a method to mark the book as completed
def mark_completed(self):
if self.status == 'c':
return "Mark as completed"
elif self.status == 'r':
return "Book is not completed"

[j.crater]

You did not change status/title properties of the class, you have just made the method return a string.
Also, in your previous code, you used "+=" operator for changing status. That means appending a string to a variable, not changing it.
I would wholeheartedly recommend starting with Python basics, and working your way up to classes, if time allows it.

[infernoblaze]

You did not change status/title properties of the class, you have just made the method return a string.
Also, in your previous code, you used "+=" operator for changing status. That means appending a string to a variable, not changing it.
I would wholeheartedly recommend starting with Python basics, and working your way up to classes, if time allows it.

omg, can anyone help me just type out what exactly should i type? i tried :(

[buran]

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class Book:    def __init__(self, title, author, pages, status='want to read'):        self.title = title        self.author = author        self.pages = pages        self.status = status             def is_long(self):        return self.pages>=500             # as an alternative    def is_long_descr(self):        if self.pages>=500:            return '{} is long book'.format(self.title)        else:            return '{} is not long book'.format(self.title)                 def mark_reading(self):        print 'Start reading book {}'.format(self.title)        self.status = 'currently reading'                  def mark_complete(self):        print 'Finish reading book {}'.format(self.title)        self.status = 'completed'      def __str__(self):       return "{} by {}, # pages: {}, status: {}.".format(self.title, self.author, self.pages, self.status)        #demo use my_book1 = Book(title='Alice in Wonderland', author='Lewis Caroll', pages=92) my_book2 = Book(title='The Three Musketeers', author='Alexandre Dumas', pages=786, status='currently reading') my_books = (my_book1, my_book2)   for book in my_books:    print book    print 'Is long: {}'.format(book.is_long())    print book.is_long_descr()    if book.status not in ('currently reading', 'completed'):        book.mark_reading()    book.mark_complete()    print book    print '\n----------------\n'