Syntax Error

Question

So spent about an hour trying to fix this and came up stumped. Just a beginner btw so I might of missed something. It shows syntax error at line 35 where self.employees = employees, look at my profile if you need the code.

class Employee():

raise_amount = 1.10

def __init__(self,first,last,pay):
self.first = first
self.last = last
self.pay = pay

def fullname(self):
print(self.first + '' + self.last)

@classmethod
def set_raise_amount(cls,amount):
cls.raise_amount = amount

@classmethod
def from_str(cls,emp_str):
first, last, pay, sector = emp_str.split('-')
return Employee(first, last, pay, sector)

class Dev(Employee):

def __init__(self,first,last,pay,pro_lang):
super().__init__(first,last,pay)
self.pro_lang = pro_lang

class Manager(Employee):

def __init__(self,first,last,pay,employees=None):
super().__init__(first,last,pay)
if employees is None:
return []
else:
return self.employees = employees

def show_emp(self):
for emp in self.employees:
print('--->' + emp.fullname())

Dev_1 = Dev('Bill','Gates',37000,'Python')
Manager_1 = Manager('Dave','Schumen',50000,[Dev_1])
print(Manager_1.show_emp)

Answer 1

And if they have no employees, you want Manager.employees to equal []?
If thats the case, try:

......
def __init__(self, first, last, pay, employees=None):
super().__init__(first, last, pay)
if self.employees == None:
self.employees = []
else:
self.employees = employees

You may even just want to initialize the Manager.employees value AS an empty list. Skip a step there

Answer 2

What are you trying to do at that line?
Were you looking to return a bool?

Answer 3

Oh right just realized the problem that I thought reurn would set the employees to whatever iI returned. Basic mistakes there :/. Thanks for the help, got the code working and updated it.

After the 'if' I just put employees because it woudnt work if I used self.employees.

Answer 4

Letting the input that you enter for employees to become the variable 'self.employees'