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Python Basic Object-Oriented Python Welcome to OOP Adding to our Panda

Posted by William Ray Noble
William Ray Noble
22,190 Points

Feeding Panda Problems

I've been on this for a while now, I have the code from the course open on my other screen and I have been referencing it. I've tried every modification I can think of and I cannot get this code to clear. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

panda.py 
class Panda:
    species = 'Ailuropoda melanoleuca'
    food = 'bamboo'

    def __init__(self, name, age):
        self.is_hungry = True
        self.name = name
        self.age = age

    def eat(self):
        self.is_hungry = False
        return ("f'{name} eats {food}")

panda_one = Panda("Bao Bao", 20)

1 Answer

Megan Amendola
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Megan Amendola
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Megan Amendola
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Megan Amendola
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Hi! Your return inside of eat has some mistakes. return ("f'{name} eats {food}")

First, you don't need the (): return "f'{name} eats {food}"

Second, your quotations should be around the text with the f on the outside: return f"'{name} eats {food}"

Then you also have an extra quotation: return f"{name} eats {food}"

You also don't need to create an instance. That is being tested for you in the backend :)

William Ray Noble
William Ray Noble
22,190 Points

Thank you, Megan! I guess I'm still a little rusty on the new string format process in python.