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Python Basic Object-Oriented Python Welcome to OOP Adding to our Panda

David Hultén
David Hultén
2,308 Points
Posted by David Hultén
David Hultén
2,308 Points

Bao Bao eating bamboo assignment not working despite looking at others same question

I've been trying for a while to get the code to wor but desspite everything it doesnt work the way it should. I don't know what's wrong, but I think it has to do with the return f'{self.name} eats {self.food}.'

panda.py 
class Panda:
    species = 'Ailuropoda melanoleuca'
    food = 'bamboo'

    def __init__(self, age, name):
        self.is_hungry = True
        self.name = name
        self.age = age

    def eat(self):
        self.is_hungry = False
        return f'{self.name} eats {self.food}.'

panda_one =("Bao Bao", 10)
panda_one.eat()

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,095 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,095 Points

The "eat" method is fine. But the instructions in step 1 to modify the __init__ method said to add arguments for "name" and "age", yet this code has "age" before "name". The order is important for regular args like these (not kwargs).

Also, the instructions only ask you to add to the class definition. The other code after the class isn't part of the challenge and is likely to confuse the evaluation mechanism. In challenges, always do only what the instructions ask for!