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Ashmit Pathak
4,441 Pointsiam getting this notification for this part of the task: Bummer! Hmm, the items don't seem to be sorted
plz tell me what's going wrong with a code to solve this because i need it
class Inventory:
def __init__(self):
self.slots = []
def add_item(self, item):
self.slots.append(item)
self.slots.sort()
class SortedInventory(Inventory):
def add_item(self, item):
super().add_item(item)
self.slots.append(item)
self.slots.sort()
2 Answers
Steven Parker
231,271 PointsIn your override, you call the "super" version of "add_item" to do add the item to the list. But then you also do an "append", which will cause a duplicate to be added.
Also, the instructions say "Only do this in the SortedInventory class.", but it looks like you also modified the "Inventory" class to do sorting.
Mark Chesney
11,747 PointsAh, this answer was helpful for me -- I was adding duplicate items too! Thanks Steven :)