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Python Basic Object-Oriented Python Welcome to OOP Creating a Panda Class

Daniel Kondakov
Daniel Kondakov
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Posted by Daniel Kondakov
Daniel Kondakov
1,337 Points

I provided the "is hungry" argument, but am getting an error that I did not provide a positional argument

I cannot figure out how to fix this error

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

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

1 Answer

Rohald van Merode
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Rohald van Merode
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Rohald van Merode
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Rohald van Merode
Treehouse Staff

Hey Daniel Kondakov 👋

The error happens because your __init__ method is defined to take an is_hungry parameter, while the challenge asks for only having the self argument. Since you're initializing is_hungry to be True anyway you can simply remove the parameter. This adjustment should pass the challenge as expected 🙂

class Panda:
    species = "Ailuropoda melanoleuca"
    food = "bamboo"

    def __init__(self):
        self.is_hungry = True

Hope this helps! 😁