Printing different values within class in Python

March 4, 2024

I’ve been trying to get the method to print out the specific attribute within class. Although I’ve already used _str_ for another thing, and for now it returns the location of my method, which is useless to me.

class Account():

    def __init__(self,name,value):

        self.name = name
        self.value = value


    
    def __str__(self):
        return f'Account owner: {self.name}\nAccount balance: ${self.value}'

    def owner(self):
        return self.name

    def balance(self):
        return self.balance

You get the idea, I wanted it to return the name user passed in Account class.

>Solution :

I’d do it like this:

class Account():

    def __init__(self,name,value):
        self.name = name
        self.value = value

    def __str__(self):
        return f'Account owner: {self.Owner}\nAccount balance: ${self.Balance}'

    @property  # note here a property to make external access more obvious
    def Owner(self):
        return self.name

    @property  # note here a property to make external access more obvious
    def Balance(self):
        return self.value  # this is the property you need


if __name__ == '__main__':  # a very simple test, common idiom
    acct = Account("TomServo", 100.40)
    print(acct)

OUTPUT:

Account owner: TomServo

Account balance: $100.4