Classes Create a Vehicle Class

Learning objective: By the end of this lesson, students will have more practice creating classes in Python.

🎓 You Do

Define a class named Vehicle with the following members:

• make: attribute for the vehicle’s make.
• model: attribute for the vehicle’s model.
• running: attribute for maintaining whether or not the vehicle is running. Initialize self.running to a default of False within the __init__() method instead of passing the value in as an argument.
• start(): method for changing running to True. It should also print the string: "Starting up!"
• stop(): method for changing running to False. It should also print the string: "Turning off."
• Override the __str__ method so that it returns a string formatted as: The vehicle is a <make> <model>. <make> and <model> should be replaced with the actual values of the make and model of the vehicle.

Test out the class by instantiating it, creating a vehicle of your choice. Call the start() and stop() methods, and print some of its attributes:

car = Vehicle("Toyota", "RAV4")

print(car)
# prints: The vehicle is a Toyota RAV4.

print(car.running) 
# prints: False

car.start()
# prints: Starting up!

print(car.running) 
# prints: True