Help with budget-app transfer method

Python
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class Category:
    def __init__(self, category):
        self.category = category
        self.ledger = []
        self.balance = 0
        self.spent_balance = 0
    
    def __repr__(self):
        return self.category
        
    def format(self, amount, description):
        #turning interger to exacly 2 point float number
        self.category += f"\n{description.ljust(23)[:23]}" +\
                        f"{amount:.2f}".rjust(7)[:7]
        return self.category
    
    def deposit(self, amount, description = ''):
        self.ledger.append({'amount': amount, 'description': description})
        self.balance += amount
        self.category = "\n" + str(self.category).center(30, '*')
        self.format(amount, description)

    def withdraw(self, amount, description = ''):
        #subtracting a sub-string from a string
        self.category = self.category.replace(f"\nTotal: {self.balance:.2f}\n", '')

        if self.check_funds(amount):      
            self.ledger.append({'amount': -amount, 'description': description})
            self.balance -= amount
            self.spent_balance += amount
            self.format(-amount, description)
            self.category += f"\nTotal: {self.balance:.2f}\n"   
            return True
        
        return False

    def get_balance(self):
        return self.balance

    def transfer(self, amount, category):
        if self.check_funds(amount):
            self.withdraw(amount, f'transfer to {category}')
        #I cant call deposit on my new category and have it in a new ledger??
            Category(category).deposit(amount, f'transfer from {self.category}')

            return True 
        
        return False

    def check_funds(self, amount):
        if amount > self.get_balance():
            return False
        
        return True
2

What’s your question?

3

[quote=“mohamedelmir, post:1, topic:741147”]
#I cant call deposit on my new category and have it in a new ledger??
[/quote
when i call transfer on a category i cant deposit in a seperate ledger

4

Could you be a bit more specific? What are you trying to do, what happens instead? What have you tried so far?

5

these are the errors i get when testing

7. Calling the transfer method on a category object 
should create a specific ledger item in that category object.
11. The transfer method should create a specific ledger item 
in the category object passed as its argument.
6

category is already the other category, you don’t need to instantiate a new one with Category