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

Posted by Devin Hight
Devin Hight
3,141 Points

How do I keep getting "eat is not defined" when it clearly is?

I keep going over this one and I can't seem to figure it out. Why do I get the NameError: name 'eat' is not defined?

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

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

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

panda_1 = Panda('Bao Bao', 12)

eat(panda_1)

1 Answer

Shawn Jones
Shawn Jones
15,579 Points

Hi Devin Hight

"eat" isn't a global function call. It is a method on the panda class. In order for you to call eat(), you have to access it through the created panda object like so:

# other stuff from your class above

panda_1 = Panda('Bao Bao', 12)

panda_1.eat()

I hope that helps!