DataScience Classes | Medical Insurance Project
I get invalid syntax error for line 14 and 37 but cannot find any indent or character errors.
Any ideas.
Thx
HB
There are a few things.
Look at how estimated_cost= is defined. You left out key pieces of information in the formula. Remember, you’re using class variables here so you have to use the self keyword.
estimated_cost = 250 * self.age - 128 * self.sex …etc
Also, revisit how you utilized the .format() function.
Your code: print("{0}'s estimated insurance costs are {1}".format(self.name, str(estimated_cost))
Summary
You don’t really need to use “{0}” and “{1}” b/c Python replaces the placeholders by value in order that they’re listed. You also don’t need to convert the second items to str().
As already mentioned, make sure you include the self keyword for all the attributes.
There actually isn’t a problem with your formatted strings, though. You’re just missing a whole bunch of closing parentheses.
Thank guys. All fixed
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Hi! Greetings!! I have a similar code but i get a “syntax error: invalid syntax” in this part of the code:
def update_age(self, new_age):
self.age = new_age
print("{} is now {} years old.".format(self.name, str(self.age))
self.estimated_insurance_cost()
I cannot understand what i’m doing wrong… please help :s
Hi, welcome to the forums.
Please post all of your formatted code.
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Hii! 
Here is all the code… and after all I got all the errors hehe. But I don’t know if it’s all good with the code!
I just need to do the final exercise to use “try” and “except” statements for bmi and smoker parameters.
class Patient:
def init(self, name, age, sex, bmi, num_of_children, smoker):
self.name = name
self.age = age
self.sex = sex
self.bmi = bmi
self.num_of_children = num_of_children
self.smoker = smoker
def estimated_insurance_cost(self):
estimated_cost = 250*self.age - 128*self.sex + 370*self.bmi + 425*self.num_of_children + 24000*self.smoker - 12500
print("{}'s estimated insurance costs are {}".format(self.name, str(estimated_cost)))
def update_age(self, new_age):
self.age = new_age
print("{} is now {} years old.".format(self.name, str(self.age)))
self.estimated_insurance_cost()
def update_num_Children(self, new_num_children):
self.num_of_children = new_num_children
if self.num_of_children == 1:
print("{} has {} child.".format(self.name, str(self.num_of_children)))
else:
print("{} has {} children.".format(self.name, str(self.num_of_children)))
def patient_profile(self):
patient_information = {}
patient_information["Name"] = self.name
patient_information["Age"] = self.age
patient_information["Sex"] = self.sex
patient_information["BMI"] = self.bmi
patient_information["Number of Children"] = self.num_of_children
patient_information["Smoker"] = self.smoker
return patient_information
patient1 = Patient(“John Doe”, 25, 1, 22.2, 0, 0)
patient1.estimated_insurance_cost()
print(patient1.patient_profile())
Thankss :))
Could you please wrap the entire code with formatting, from the first line with class to after your final print statement. You can use a three backticks before and after for this, e.g.
```
code goes here
```
Which line gives you an error? The full error code would be useful.
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Hey, i solved the problem already! I had some () in the wrong place and the code wasn’t running correctly… Sorry for the trouble 
My trouble now is to upload lists of patient data rather than just individual numbers, is it enought to put this in the code?
“patient_data = [“John Doe”, 25, 1, 22.2, 0, 0]”
or should i put:
“patient_data = [name, age, sex, bmi, num_of_children, smoker]”
Sorry for the question, but there is any tip for the resolution?
Thank you very much for your time!
You’d want your original data (outside the class) in list form, aye. I think this instruction is suggesting that you should be able to create a new Patient instance in the following manner-
class Patient
... # rest of code
patient_data = ["John Doe", 25, 1, 22.2, 0, 0]
patient_instance = Patient(patient_data)
The idea being each individual Patient can be created simply by passing a list of data rather than writing in every piece of data as individual arguments to Patient. This would of course require a few changes within your class definition but that’s what I believe the end goal is.
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Thank you very much!!
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