calculating depth of a binary tree in Python

I am new to programming and am trying to calculate the depth of a binary tree in Python . I believe that my error is because depth is a method of the Node class and not a regular function. I am trying to learn OOP and was hoping to use a method. This might be a newbie error... Here is my code:

class Node:

    def __init__(self, item, left=None, right=None):
        """(Node, object, Node, Node) -> NoneType
        Initialize this node to store item and have children left and right.
        """
        self.item = item
        self.left = left
        self.right = right

    def depth(self):
        if self.left == None and self.right == None:
            return 1

        return max(depth(self.left), depth(self.right)) + 1

i receive this error:

>>>b = Node(100)

>>>b.depth()

1 

>>>a = Node(1, Node(2), Node(3))

>>>a.depth()

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files\Wing IDE 101 4.1\src\debug\tserver\_sandbox.py", line 1, in <module>
    # Used internally for debug sandbox under external interpreter
  File "C:\Program Files\Wing IDE 101 4.1\src\debug\tserver\_sandbox.py", line 15, in depth
builtins.NameError: global name 'depth' is not defined