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Python Object-Oriented Python (retired) Inheritance Override Inherited Methods

Benjamin B
Benjamin B
1,351 Points
Posted by Benjamin B
Benjamin B
1,351 Points

For which reason is the method able to access the variable sound?

I probably did not get the concept behind passing values as parameters.

Why is this code wrong:

sheep.py 
from animal import Animal

class Sheep(Animal):
  sound ='bark'

  def noise(self, sound):
    return self.sound.upper()

[MOD: added ```python formatting -cf]

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
230,274 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
230,274 Points

It looks like you're very close.

I'm going to assume that your indentation is not an issue, even though it's impossible to tell with the unformatted code shown.

But otherwise, it looks like you just have a spurious second parameter named sound in your definition of noise. Remove that and you should pass.

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