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Sohail Mirza
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 5,158 Pointsoverride init
Not sure where to start from. but bascially when kenneth talks begins to talk about the init (4.30) and create the class Fillledlist he says the following So, first things first, let's go ahead and super, and then init. And we're going to ignore everything that was passed in. I don't care what they gave me. All I want is an empty list when I get to the end of this, okay? So at this point, right now, I have a brand new, empty list instance, stored inside of self.
what does he mean we are going to ignore everything and i want is a empty list this sounds very confusing..could someone please explain
1 Answer
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 PointsKenneth means: "All I want is an empty list when I get to the end of [creating the list using the super command]"
and "we are going to ignore everything passed in (count, value, and any arbitrary positional arguments and keyword arguments) for now. We'll use the count and value later on".
*args absorbs any additional positional arguments and puts them in the tuple args, and **kwargs absorbs all of the additional keyword arguments and puts them into the dict kwargs
The self attribute points to the newly created list.
Post back if you need more help. Good luck!!
Ali Al Dairawi
1,869 PointsAli Al Dairawi
1,869 PointsChris Freeman thank you for your explanation.