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

Posted by Henry Grigorovich
Henry Grigorovich
1,706 Points

create a class with attributes...

class Panda: species = ‘Ailuropoda melanoleuca’ food = ‘bamboo’ Here im defining the class name, then assigning attributes by name. What am I missing???

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

1 Answer

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Hi Henry Grigorovich

It looks like you copied/pasted from the question. Often times, the code checker for the challenge does not like the quotation marks used in the actual question. If you replace all four quotation marks with new ones you type in the text will change from pink to orange for the set attributes. Keep that in mind for future challenges. It's okay to copy/paste, but you will often have to change out the quotation marks used.

Keep coding! :) :dizzy: