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

Posted by Mario Paoli
Mario Paoli
1,426 Points

I dont know what I am doing wrong

Create a method called eat. It should only take self as an argument. Inside of the method, set the is_hungry attribute to False, since the Panda will no longer be hungry when it eats. Also, return a string that says 'Bao Bao eats bamboo.' where 'Bao Bao' is the name attribute and 'bamboo' is the food attribute.

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

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

4 Answers

ANTOINE CREIS
ANTOINE CREIS
1,596 Points

The questions are not really clear considering there are several ways to return the string. One way is to create a new instance of the panda class (panda_one for example) and pass it the name (Bao Bao) attribute, see below:

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
        return f'{self.name} eats {self.food}.'

panda_one = Panda('Bao Bao', 10)
panda_one.eat()

Good luck !

Mario Paoli
Mario Paoli
1,426 Points

Thank you so much!!!!! I've been on this for a while and this really helped me out!

Erik Linden
Erik Linden
14,313 Points
Erik Linden
Erik Linden
14,313 Points

I spent some time on this issue and it turned out that I had left the period at the end. That was annoying.

Tanya Townsend
Tanya Townsend
11,692 Points
Tanya Townsend
Tanya Townsend
11,692 Points

None of that worked for me. After tinkering for almost an hour- this worked for me.

class Panda:
    species = 'Ailuropoda melanoleuca'
    food = 'bamboo'
    name= 'BaoBao'
    age= 10

    def __init__(self, name=name, age=age):
        self.is_hungry = True
        self.name = name
        self.age = age
panda_one = Panda('Bao Bao', 10)
panda_one =Panda()
Daniel Akalu
Daniel Akalu
5,018 Points
Daniel Akalu
Daniel Akalu
5,018 Points

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
    name = 'Bao Bao'
    food = 'bamboo'
    return f'{self.name} eats {self.food}.'