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Andrew Dani Arianto
5,983 PointsAbout class Orange(Fruit) in Quiz OO-Python
In a quiz about Object-Oriented Python about inheritance, there is this question about an object Orange(Fruit) with code like below.
class Orange(Fruit): has_pulp = True
def squeeze(self):
return has_pulp
The question is "Orange().squeeze() will return True." {True or False)
I get the answer but I doubt it. I try the program in the workspace and already create the Fruit parent class. And here I encounter a problem. Why is there an error "NameError: name 'has_pulp' is not defined" ?
2 Answers
andren
28,558 PointsWhy is there an error "NameError: name 'has_pulp' is not defined" ?
Because has_pulp is not a variable defined within the squeeze method. It has been defined as a class attribute, to access it you have to use the self keyword.
So the code for the squeeze method should have looked like this:
def squeeze(self):
return self.has_pulp
If it had looked like that then the answer to the Quiz would have been True, as the squeeze method would have returned True, but since it lacked the self keyword it instead results in an exception being raised.
The question is phrased in a somewhat confusing way, since the correct answer is False that might lead you to think that the code returns False rather than True, but that is not the case. The question is asking if the statement "Orange().squeeze() will return True." is correct (True) or incorrect (False) not which of those values it will return. Since the code results in an exception it is false to say that it will return True. Hence False is the correct answer to the question.
Andrew Dani Arianto
5,983 PointsThanks for the answer.