Hello guys,
I am struggling with budget app from scientific computing with python projects.
I am still working on the cose since the second part of the task (create spending chart) is quite crazy in my opinion
In any case, I have an annoying error in the class itself: in the transfer method I don’t manage to transfer the money to the given category.
It keeps telling me that i cannot call the deposit method on a string (category), but how can i make it understand that category is a Category object and not only a string?
I guess it’s quite obvious but i can’t see it.
Is it a problem related to how i defined/initialized the class Category? Or i am making some sintax error in the transfer method itself?
There was a similar question posted recently with the same problem. You really need to post the error message generated:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 2, in <module>
import budget
File "/home/runner/boilerplate-budget-app-2/budget.py", line 88, in <module>
A.transfer(200, "Clothing")
File "/home/runner/boilerplate-budget-app-2/budget.py", line 26, in transfer
self.withdraw(amount, "Transfer to " + category.name)
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'name'
Your code here
A.transfer(200, "Clothing")
is calling the transfer() method with a string as the category argument. Your transfer() method as you’ve coded it
def transfer(self, amount, category):
if self.check_funds(amount):
self.withdraw(amount, "Transfer to " + category.name)
category.deposit(amount, "Transfer from " + self.name)
print("Transfer successful!")
return True
else:
print("Transfer failed due to lack of money!")
return False
is treating category as a Category object but since you are passing in a string, it generates this error:
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'name'
