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Riley Wu
1,843 PointsAdd an __init__ method to your class. It should only take the self argument. Inside the method, create an instance attri
I don't know what I did wrong. It keeps saying TypeError
# insert your code here
class Panda:
species = 'Ailuropoda melanoleuca'
food = 'bamboo'
def __init__(self, name, age):
self.name = name
self.age = age
self.is_hungry = True
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Steven Parker
230,688 PointsThe instructions say that the new method "should only take the self
argument". But the one shown here requires 3 arguments, including 2 that are not asked for in the instructions!
This code actually looks like it might be for a different challenge that comes later in the course, did you perhaps copy it from a question about that other challenge?
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Setiawan Angga
606 Pointsi even tried like this:
class Panda:
def init(self, species, food): self.species = 'Ailuropoda melanoleuca' self.food = 'bamboo'
and it was not working
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John Shoot
214 Pointsclass Panda: species = 'Ailuropoda melanoleuca' food = 'bamboo' is_hungry = 1
def __init__(self):
self.is_hungry = is_hungry