How to access to an specific attribute of an object in a python class?

Question

Hello I am trying to build a class to clean a string, however I dont understand why I got the following output:

 python3 clean.py 
<bound method clean_string.split_func of <__main__.clean_string object at 0x7fb70486b0f0>>

My class looks as follows:

class clean_string:

    def __init__(self,cadena):
        self.replace_chars = {"á":"a","ó":"o"}
        self.cadena = cadena
    def split_func(self):
        return self.cadena.split(' ')

test_string = clean_string('this is a test')

However when I execute the code I only got the memory reference object:

print(test_string.split_func)
<bound method clean_string.split_func of <__main__.clean_string object at 0x7fb70486b0f0>>

I want to get the following output:

['this', 'is', 'a', 'test']

Answer 1

print(test_string.split_func)

This line prints what split_func is, which is a function. If you want to print what is returned by the function, you need to do print(test_string.split_func())

Without the parentheses at the end, it will print what split_func is, which is what you see.