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Suggested Solution

class Sample:
    DNA_INVERSE = {"A": "T", "C": "G", "G": "C", "T": "A"}

    …  # Everything else as before

    def template_strand(self):
        return self.dna_sequence

    def coding_strand(self):
        if not self.dna_sequence:   # Throwing an error would be better
            return None             # But we have not learned that yet
        coding_strand = ""
        for nucleotide in self.dna_sequence:
            coding_strand += Sample.DNA_INVERSE[nucleotide]
        return coding_strand

A slightly more clean approach to implementing the template_strand(…)- and coding_strand(…)-methods would be to implement them as so called properties, since they both refer to the same attribute. Learn more about properties