Why does this error appear?

Question

I suspect the static method tag is not detected or something.

>class Employee:
> @staticmethod
> def dayIsWorkday(day):
> if day.weekday() == 5 or day.weekday() == 6:
> return False
> return True
>
>
>import datetime
>my_date = datetime.date(2018, 12, 5)
>
>print(Employee.dayIsWorkday(my_date))

File "C:/Users/tronc/PycharmProjects/oop_TEST/main.py", line 26 def dayIsWorkday(day): ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Process finished with exit code 1

You may think that it's not useful, i think that too, but it's for a tutorial i'm trying to follow and i don't wanna go any further till i get what i done wrong

• Jay: What is the error?
• Morton Madison Wally: i posted it now
• pask: You shouldn't indent the code after your decorator.

Answer 1

There should be no indentation for the function name in the next line after @staticmethod

>class Employee:
> @staticmethod
> def dayIsWorkday(day):
> if day.weekday() == 5 or day.weekday() == 6:
> return False
> return True
>
>
>import datetime
>my_date = datetime.date(2018, 12, 5)
>
>print(Employee.dayIsWorkday(my_date))

Answer 2

I guess its an indentation error. Check this

class Employee:
 @staticmethod
 def dayIsWorkday(day):
 if day.weekday() == 5 or day.weekday() == 6:
 return False
 return True
import datetime
my_date = datetime.date(2018, 12, 5)
print(Employee.dayIsWorkday(my_date))

• Morton Madison Wally: oh nevermainf i forget the paranteses from the class method above so it wuldnt close corrrect thanks bye
• sjaymj62: I guess you have an error in another part of your code now.