why not "spam" refers to self.other and "Hello world!" refers to self.cont

Question

as both spam and hello callings are having difference only in attributes why "spam" refers to self.cont while "Hello world!" refers to self.other istead of "spam" to self.other and " hello world " to self.cont

mainly while calling specialstring class same to both spam and hello.
hello should first call cont why it is going to other

totally iam getting full confusion with this code

please can any one help me to understand this code step by step

class SpecialString:
def __init__(self, cont):
self.cont = cont

def __truediv__(self, other):
line = "=" * len(other.cont)
return "\n".join([self.cont, line, other.cont])

spam = SpecialString("spam")
hello = SpecialString("Hello world!")
print(spam / hello)

Answer 1

Exactly. Btw, it's just a convention to refer to them as "self" and "other". You could call them whatever you want, but "self" and "other" are usually used because it makes obvious what your code is doing

Answer 2

spam and hello are instances of the SpecialString class. spam / hello calls the __truediv__ method. It's the same as calling SpecialString.__truediv__(spam, hello). So "spam" refers to "self" and "hello" refers to "other". There is no "self.other". self and other are two different instances of the same class.

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Answer 3

No inheritance. You could change it to class SpecialString(str) to make it inherit from the string class. That would allow you to use string slicing on SpecialString objects etc.

Answer 4

now i got
other is also a key word for instance right?
and cont is attribute

Answer 5

yeah i got it
thanq very much

Answer 6

here we are using inheritance also. right?