Understanding class method in python

Question

I have a three question to ask

in python I have written a class method inside a class and have written basic functionality When I try to call that method from class itself and when I try to print I get the output as "None"
Also if someone can please explain in class methods only class variables can be accessed? and also can instance variables can also be accessed in class methods
Also if remove the class variables and declare my own variables in the class method would the code will work when i pass the arguments in the method while calling it from class

Below is the code

class Item():

    discount_price = 0.8
    quantity1 = 10
    quantity2 = 10
    
    def __init__(self,name,price,quantity):
        self.name = name
        self.price = price
        self.quantity = quantity


    @classmethod
    def year2020(cls,val1,val2):
         cls.value2020 = cls.quantity1 + cls.quantity2 + cls.discount_price
        

print(Item.year2020(10,10))

[Return, return None, and no return at all](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15300550/return-return-none-and-no-return-at-all) — G. Anderson, Oct 27 '21 at 19:11
You can't access instance attributes, because no instance is passed to the class method. — chepner, Oct 27 '21 at 19:14

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 27 '21 at 19:12

The functoin year2020 does not return anything, so the print statement is told to print out nothing. To get it to print the output of the function, make sure to include a return statement inside.

For example, here is a fixed function which returns the output:

def year2020(cls,val1,val2):
    cls.value2020 = cls.quantity1 + cls.quantity2 + cls.discount_price
    return cls.value2020

Understanding class method in python

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