Call a class method in the same python class

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Call a class method in the same python class

I'm teaching oop in python, I ran into an error that I don't understand. I want to call the class method inside of it, but I get the error NameError: name 'self' is not defined My code:

class Cat:
    def __init__(self,name='Alex'):
        self.name=name

    def prnt(self):
        print(self.name)
    self.prnt()
p1=Cat()

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Author: borisk, 2020-04-21

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When creating an instance of the class, only __init__() is executed, so you can add the necessary statement there:

def __init__(self, name='Alex'):
    self.name = name
    print(self.name)

If you want exactly the method of the class, then call it in __init__():

class Cat:

    def __init__(self, name = 'Alex'):
        self.name = name
        self.prnt()

    def prnt(self):
        print(self.name)