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Kenneth Bagwell Jr
3,698 PointsHow should this conditional statement be written?
Stuck on this if statement
class Panda:
species = 'Ailuropoda melanoleuca'
food = 'bamboo'
is_hungry = True
def __init__(self, name, age):
self.name = name
self.age = age
self.is_hungry = True
self.food = 'bamboo'
def eat(self):
self.is_hungry = False
return f'{self.name} eats {self.food}.'
def check_if_hungry(self):
if self.is_hungry():
self.is_hungry = eat()
1 Answer
Steven Parker
229,771 PointsYou're pretty close, but I see a few issues:
- is_hungry is an attribute, not a method, so you don't need parentheses after it
- the line(s) controlled by the conditional must be indented one level further
- when calling the internal method eat(), precede it with "self."
- you only need to call the eat method, you don't need to assign the result to anything