O.O.P python OK, now let's add a method named run_lap. It'll take a length argument. It should reduce the fuel_remaining

this is what i got so far, with self.total_length and self.total_fuelremaining i get this error message, "AttributeError: 'RaceCar' object has no attribute 'total_length'." even if i take away the instance variable self.

class RaceCar:

    def __init__(self, color, fuel_remaining, **kwargs):
        self.color = color
        self.fuel_remaining = fuel_remaining

        for key, value in kwargs.items():
            setattr(self, key, value)

    def run_lap(self, length):
        self.laps = 0
        length = length
        self.total_length = length * 0.125
        self.total_fuel = total_length - self.fuel_remaining

why doesn't length need an instance variable. in the initfunction method color and fuel_remaining all got given an instance variable.

A few more hints:

• "total_length" is not something the instructions tell you to keep track of
• "fuel_remaining" is the name of the fuel variable, not "total_fuel"
• "length" is a parameter because it is also not kept after being used to calculate "fuel_remaining"
• you should create "laps" in the "__init__" method with the other instance variables
• assigning a variable to itself doesn't do anything useful

The last two lines don't do anything.

class RaceCar:

    def __init__(self, color, fuel_remaining, **kwargs):
        self.color = color
        self.fuel_remaining = fuel_remaining
        self.laps = 0

        for key, value in kwargs.items():
            setattr(self, key, value)

    def run_lap(self, length):
        length * 0.125                            #doesn't do anything 
        self.fuel_remaining - length     #doesn't do anything

You're right, just performing a calculation doesn't do anything lasting. For that, you need to perform the calculation in an assignment statement that puts the result into a variable (perhaps back into one being used in the calculation).

i got the last two lines to do something but i still get a bummer message "Bummer: Did you adjust the fuel_remaining attribute?"

class RaceCar:

    def __init__(self, color, fuel_remaining, **kwargs):
        self.color = color
        self.fuel_remaining = fuel_remaining
        self.laps = 0

        for key, value in kwargs.items():
            setattr(self, key, value)

    def run_lap(self, length):
        total_fuel = (int(length) * 0.125) - (int(self.fuel_remaining) - length)
        return total_fuel

Sure enough, this code makes no changes to "fuel_remaining" but creates and returns "total_fuel" instead. But that's not what the instructions ask for. So to conform to the instructions:

• you don't need to create a new variable
• the fuel calculation should put the result back into "fuel_remaining"
• you don't need "int" conversions, these values are already ints
• "length" should be used only once in the formula
• this method also needs to increase "self.laps" (in a separate statement)
• you don't need to "return" anything

With out return nothing happens, can you show me how to do it with out return? I have no idea how create a count for self.lap do i use the enumerate or f' string index? . I neatened the formula so only length is used once but i have encountered another problem, if enter the following in the console it only takes 1. 25 away: >>> mohan=RaceCar("blue", 56)

mohan.run_lap(10)
54.75.

class RaceCar:

    def __init__(self, color, fuel_remaining, **kwargs):
        self.color = color
        self.fuel_remaining = fuel_remaining
        self.laps = 0 

        for key, value in kwargs.items():
            setattr(self, key, value)

    def run_lap(self, length):
        self.fuel_remaining = (self.fuel_remaining) - (length * 0.125)
        return self.fuel_remaining

The fuel calculation seems correct now. I see how you are using "return" for testing, but it's not needed for the challenge.

The code for a typical method to increment the laps would look like this:

        self.laps += 1

'''self.laps=0''' has to be set to zero and increment by one from there, so does it look like this: (it comes back with "Bummer: Be sure to set the laps attribute to 0")

class RaceCar:

    def __init__(self, color, fuel_remaining, **kwargs):
        self.color = color
        self.fuel_remaining = fuel_remaining
        self.laps = 0
        self.laps += 1 

Setting it to 0 is done in the "__init___" method. But the increment should be done only in the "run_lap" method.

I tried to put it through and it comes back with, "Bummer: Hmm, some attributes didn't get set correctly".

class RaceCar:

    def __init__(self, color, fuel_remaining, **kwargs):
        self.color = color
        self.fuel_remaining = fuel_remaining
        self.laps = 0


    def run_lap(self, length):
        self.laps += 1
        self.fuel_remaining = (self.fuel_remaining) - (length * 0.125)

Your original code had some lines in the "__init__" method that set additional keyword arguments using "setattr". But apparently during the other changes, that bit of the code got removed.

Put it back in and you should pass the challenge.