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6,204 PointsDragon is not defined
I'm getting this error telling me my subclasses are not defined. I know there's some stupid error. Please help me find it!
import random
COLORS = ['yellow', 'red', 'blue', 'green']
class Monster:
minHitpoints = 1
maxHitpoints = 1
minExperience = 1
maxExperience = 1
weapon = 'sword'
sound = 'roar'
def __init__(self, **kwargs):
self.hitpoints = random.randint(self.minHitpoints, self.maxHitpoints)
self.experience = random.randint(self.minExperience, self.maxExperience)
self.color = random.choice(COLORS)
for key, value in kwargs.items():
setattr(self, key, value)
def __str__(self):
return '{} {}, HP: {}, XP: {}'.format(self.color.title(),
self.__class__.__name__,
self.hitpoints,
self.experience)
def battlecry(self):
return self.sound.upper()
class Goblin(Monster):
maxHitpoints = 3
maxExperience = 2
sound = 'squel'
class Troll(Monster):
minHitpoints = 3
maxHitpoints = 5
minExperience = 2
maxExperience = 6
sound = 'growl'
class Dragon(Monster):
minHitpoints = 5
maxHitpoints = 10
minExperience = 6
maxExperience = 10
sound = 'raaaaaaaaaar'
1 Answer
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherOnly thing I see is that battlecry
's content is indented 4 spaces while everything else is 2. Python is often really picky about indentation. Make them match and try again?
Tristan Gaebler
6,204 PointsI was importing Monster instead of Dragon. My bad...thanks for the help though! Loving the python courses!!!
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,454 PointsChris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,454 Pointsformat help: please wrap your code in triple-backticks-python as mentioned in the Markdown Cheatsheet. I see you've used triple-single-quotes instead of backticks (next to the "1" on most keyboards).