We already created instances of the simple Rectangle
class. We just needed to use the class name, specify the required arguments enclosed in parentheses, and assign the result to a variable.
The following lines declare a calculate_area
method within the body of the Rectangle
class:
def calculate_area(self): return self.width * self.height
The method doesn't require arguments to be called from an instance because it just declares the previously explained self
parameter. The following lines create an instance of the Rectangle
class named rectangle4
and then print the results of the call to the calculate_area
method for this object:
rectangle4 = Rectangle(143, 187) print(rectangle4.calculate_area())
Now, imagine that we want to have a function that receives the width and height values of a rectangle and returns the calculated area. We can take advantage of the Rectangle
class to code this new function. We just need to create an instance of the Rectangle...