Im trying to make a method that checks if the object will be of a faculty type based from the faculty class. This is the code but im getting a syntax error?

def addFaculty(self, f_obj):
        if f_obj isinstance(f_obj, Faculty):
            return True
        else:
            self.directory.append(f_obj)

CodePudding user response：

Try this:

def addFaculty(self, f_obj): 
    return isinstance(f_obj, Faculty)

or:

def addFaculty(self, f_obj):
    return type(f_obj) is Faculty 

CodePudding user response：

Class name not acceptable to use from method scope.
For this purposes use __class__ attr of obj self.

def addFaculty(self, f_obj): 
    if isinstance(f_obj, self.__class__): 
        return True 
    else: 
        self.directory.append(f_obj)

CodePudding user response：

Alternative way to implement simular feature is to use __init_subclass__ method

class Faculty:
    dictionary= {}
    def __init_subclass__ (cls, **kwargs): 
        Faculty.dictionary[cls.__name__] = cls
 
class New(Faculty):
    pass

print(Faculty.dictionary)

Output: {'New': (class '__main__.New')}