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Perfect! Now we’re ready to start creating objects.

We can access attributes of our objects using dot notation. Here’s how it works:

class Square(object):
  def __init__(self):
    self.sides = 4

my_shape = Square()
print my_shape.sides

First we create a class named Square with an attribute sides.
Outside the class definition, we create a new instance of Square named my_shape and access that attribute using my_shape.sides.

Outside the Animal class definition, create a variable named zebra and set it equal to Animal("Jeffrey").

Then print out zebra‘s name.

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