Bound method elsewhere?

Question

I'm 99% certain that I did everything the same as in the video, but every time I check the battlecry of a new class I'm told that it's been bound elsewhere. I have no idea what that means or how to handle it. Would someone please explain what it is, how it happens, and how to deal with it? Here's the bits and pieces:

file:

class Monster:
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        self.hitpoints = kwargs.get('hitpoints', 1)
        self.weapon = kwargs.get('weapon', 'sword')
        self.color = kwargs.get('color', 'blue')
        self.sound = kwargs.get('sound', 'roar')

    def battlecry(self):
        return self.sound.upper()

shell:

input position

output position

from monster import Monster

Eagle=Monster(weapon='beak',sound='tweet')

Eagle.weapon

'beak'

Eagle.battlecry

<bound method Monster.battlecry of <monster.Monster object at 0x7fee4bd39080>>

Eagle.sound

'tweet'

Answer 1 · 2017-02-20T22:14:35Z

February 20, 2017 10:14pm

Your code in the file is 100% fine, but the code in your shell is wrong.

However, you aren't calling the function battlecry in the Shell. You are just trying to retrieve the location of the function in memory, that's why you get this "scary-looking" ID.

Add parens to the end to tell Python to call the function and you should be good! The code to call the function is below:

Eagle.battlecry()

Also, just FYI, it's bad practice to use an uppercase letter in the name Eagle since it's not a class but it's a plain old variable assigned to a instance of the Monster class. The only time you capitalize the first letter of a name in Python is when you make the name of the class. Remember: Eagle is not a class, therefore should be capitalized, but Monster is! This means that eagle is a better name then Eagle but Monster is fine

Juts for your information

I hope this helps

~Alex

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Garrett Phipps

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Bound method elsewhere?

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Alexander Davison

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Your code in the file is 100% fine, but the code in your shell is wrong.

Garrett Phipps

Garrett Phipps