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Michael Kelly
4,965 PointsAm I misunderstanding the directions?
The instructions in the second step tell me to pass in a name set to any default value I choose and then set self.name to name. However, when I do this it says step 1 is no longer working. Step 1 is to set name to my name.
It seems I can't do both in one class as they are contradictory instructions. What am I missing?
2 Answers
Carlos Federico Puebla Larregle
21,074 PointsThe second task is asking for you to override the init method so you can assign values to your member variables. This method is some what similar to the constructors in Java. You could do it like this:
class Student:
name = "Federico"
def __init__(self, name="Anonymous"):
self.name = name;
I hope that helps a little bit.
Michael Kelly
4,965 PointsHi Carlos,
Thank you for the feedback. It turns out I forgot to put def before init so it told me Task 1 no longer works. I thought it was a conflict because I was assigning another value to name.
Your code helped me catch the error. Thanks!
Carlos Federico Puebla Larregle
21,074 PointsThat's right, you have to put the keyword "def" before the name init so it understands that it's a method that we are talking about.