Not sure what I am doing wrong here when trying to initiate instance of object and set a name to the instance...

class Person:
    def Person(self, name):
        def __init__(self, name):
            self.name = name

m = Person.Person('James')

m.name

Any help with an explanation?

I've personally not encountered a situation where the init function is nested beneath a parent function...

CodePudding user response：

The problem here is correlated to the function definition. Basically, you are calling Person function that define but doesn't call the init one. So, you can solve like that:

class Person:
    def __init__(self, name):
        self.name = name
    
m = Person('James')
m.name