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

Posted by Christopher Rodriguez
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Christopher Rodriguez
Python Development Techdegree Graduate 11,265 Points

Task 2 failing. Looks like a formatting error?

I tried running this by chatGPT which said this might be a formatting error. I'm not able to find the error, but please let me know if you do!

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

    def __init__(self, name, age):
        self.is_hungry = True
        self.name = name
        self.age = age
    def eat(self):
        self.is_hungry = False
        phrase = f'{self.name} eats {self.food}.'
        return phrase

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points

I tried having ChatGPT inspect this myself and got different results. In particular, it said "I don't see any immediate syntax errors in the code.", which agrees with my own assessment. It did make 3 suggestions for "improvement", and oddly, one of them was "using a class variable for the food attribute" when it already is a class variable! This is a good example of why ChatGPT should never be relied on as a definitive source for code evaluation. It can be a useful resource for experienced programmers, but is as likely to confuse as it is to inform new students.

So your code does indeed perform the task requested in the instructions. What seems to be the issue is the creation of the extra variable "phrase", which the challenge is apparently not expecting. Just construct and return the phrase on one line to pass task 2.

By the way, I pointed out to ChatGPT that 'food' was already a class variable and it admitted the mistake and apologized.   :see_no_evil: