i'm writing 2 classes patron.py and book.py i have a good chunk of what i need working i'm having a small problem and i'm sure it's probably syntactical or something just in the wrong place but either way i could really use some help.

what the program does is takes the class patron.py and book.py to keep track of who has checked out what book and how many books they have out and waiting lists for books if someone has it checked out but someone else wants it. that's the basic idea of what it should be doing.

now my problem comes in on the getting the program to borrow a book out to someone, so then it also has the problem of not keeping track of the # of books they have either this is the section of code i'm having trouble with



this is how i begin to run it and the error that shows up:



now I know that self._booksOut is a problem but i can't really tell why or how to fix it. if any one can help i would really appreciate it!

i've posted the rest of my code below

I think it should be:

Remember to use self when need:

        if self._borrower != None:
            print "you have been put on the waiting list for this book"
            self._waitList.add(patron)
            return False
        else:
            if self.getNumOfBooksOut() >= 3:
                print "you have too many books checked out already"
                return False
            else:
                self._booksOut += 1
                print "You have successfully checked the book out"[/color]

Note that there is never a need to use elif without an else statement

thanks guys you both were really helpful, those small changes corrected the problems i was having so again thanks!