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Python Object-Oriented Python Advanced Objects Frustration

whats wrong with my code thanks for the help

Now I want you to make a subclass of list. Name it Liar. Override the len method so that it always returns the wrong number of items in the list. For example, if a list has 5 members, the Liar class might say it has 8 or 2. You'll probably need super() for this.

frustration.py
import random

class Honest:
    def __init__(self):
        self.listofnums = []

    def __len__(self):
        return len(self.listofnums)

class Liar(Honest):
     def __len__(self):
        super().__len__(self)
        if len(self.listofnums) == 2:
            return random.randint(1, 10):
        else:
            return self.listofnums

1 Answer

Jeff Muday
MOD
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,720 Points

The challenge is a little simpler than you thought. You don't have to create an Honest class with encapsulated listofnums. The challenge just asks for a subclass of the Python 'list' type that returns a length that is always wrong. That can be accomplished by adding or subracting a non-zero integer to the value that is returned from the super class len(). The Liar class len function won't ever return the correct value -- but, the other list operations like append(), replace(), etc. as per the definition of a subclass will work as they should.

class Liar(list):
    def __len__(self):
        liar_len = super().__len__() + 1 # len() always lies because it is one more
        return liar_len