Trying to create an object via a user's input

Question

I\'m trying to create an employee object via user input, but I\'m running into issues with my code. When I run this nothing happens and it\'s not throwing any e

Answer 1

Your current code has a neverending loop in it, as __init__ and create_employee call each other. You take arguments for all the attributes in the initialiser, then ignore them and ask for user input, which you pass to the initialiser for a new object, which ignores it and...

I think what you want is a structure more like:

class Employee(object): # PEP-8 name

    def __init__(self, name, pay, hours):
        # assign instance attributes (don't call from_input!)

    def __str__(self):
        # replaces emp_name, returns a string 

    @property
    def weekly_total(self):
        return sum(self.hours)

    @classmethod
    def from_input(cls):
        # take (and validate and convert!) input
        return cls(name, pay, hours)

Which you can use like:

employee = Employee("John Smith", 12.34, (8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 0, 0))
print str(employee) # call __str__

Or:

employee = Employee.from_input()
print employee.weekly_total # access property

Note that rather than having separate instance attributes for the different days, I've assumed a single list/tuple of hours for each day. If the day names are important, use a dictionary {'Monday': 7, ...}. Remember that all raw_input is a string, but you probably want hours and pay as floats; for more on input validation, see here.