unbound method with instance as first argument got string but requires something else
methods, oop, python
Solution
You need an instance of Maps, not the Maps class:
maps.Maps.add_animal("Fred") # gives error
mymap = maps.Map()
mymap.add_animal("Fred") # should work
So you should either have a mymap attribute on the Animal class, per Animal instance or as a global object (whatever works best for your case).
Problem
``` #Maps.py class Maps(object): def __init__(self): self.animals = [] self.currently_occupied = {} def add_animal(self, name): self.animals.append(name) self.currently_occupied = {robot:[0, 0]} #animal.py class Animal(object): def __init__(self, name): import maps maps.add_animal(rbt) self.name = name #Tproject.py from Animal import Animal Fred = Animal("Fred") ``` gives me this an error that looks like this TypeError: unbound method add_animal() must be called with Maps instance as first argument (got str instance instead) but i dont know what it means and i cannot figure it out searching through google or yahoo :(