Question

I am reading the book "How to think like a computer scientist" by Allen Downey, Jeffrey Elkner and Chris Meyers. When I read chapter 13 I typed the code from the book into the interpreter:

time = Time ()
time.hours = 11
time.minutes = 59
time.seconds = 30

And then I typed:

print Time

I got the following system output:

>>> print Time
__main__.Time

Then I tried:

print time

And the system output was this:

>>> print time
<__main__.Time instance at 0x17635d0>

Can somebody explain to me what's going on?

Thank you!

Answer 1

I forgot to mention, of cause, that I created a class by typing the following in the very beginning:

class Time():
pass

Everything else in my initial message followed.

Answer 2

I figured it out!

"print time" prints the instance; whereas "print Time" prints the class

nice