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Python Object-Oriented Python Instant Objects Master Class

Posted by Duane Smith
Duane Smith
1,919 Points

Race Car 2/3: What's wrong with my code? I've run this code in Visual Studio and it didn't show me any bugs.

This error message I get is: "Did you adjust the fuel_remaining variable?"

Which I don't know how my method isn't doing that since I'm calling the fuel_remaining variable and adjusting it by the length*.0125 for reach time the function is called.

I'm not sure what I'm not seeing.

Thanks to anyone in advance for pointing me in the right direction.

racecar.py 
class RaceCar:
    laps = 0
    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.length = length
        self.fuel_remaining -= (self.length*.0125)
        self.laps += 1

2 Answers

Ave Nurme
Ave Nurme
20,907 Points

Hi Duane

You have a small typo here :

self.fuel_remaining -= (self.length*.0125)

It should be

self.fuel_remaining -= (self.length*0.125)

So replace .0125 with 0.125 and all should be good!

Duane Smith
Duane Smith
1,919 Points

Wow, God bless you my good friend. I swear it would have been a month before I realized that I even made that typo and would have been through a ton of different iterations before I decided that was the big issue.

Ave Nurme
Ave Nurme
20,907 Points
Ave Nurme
Ave Nurme
20,907 Points

Happy to help, Duane! Good luck with your studies! :-)