On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:26 PM, ApathyBear <nircher...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for pointing out the missing parenthesis, it makes sense now why there > was an error. > > I suppose my question now is (and forgive my ignorance about classes, this is > my first time learning them) why is it calling Athlete with some arguments? > In order to make a class object, don't you need to create an instance by > assigning a class to something? > > like: > x = Athlete(temp1.pop(0),temp1.pop(0),temp1)
Calling a class will create a new instance of it. [1] What you do with it afterwards is separate. The return statement takes any value and, well, returns it. You can return anything - an Athlete instance, the integer 13423523452, the floating point value NaN, anything at all. > can a similar line look like this?: > temp1.pop(0) = Athlete(temp1.pop(0),temp1) You can't assign to a function call, so no, you can't do that. I recommend you start with the Python tutorial: http://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html ChrisA [1] The class might choose to do something different (when you call bool with some argument, it'll return a pre-existing True or False), but conceptually, you still get back an instance of that class. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
