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Manyung Tah
7,445 PointsOverride the __len__ method.. whats wrong with my code?
Now I want you to make a subclass of list. Name it Liar. Override the len method so that it always returns the wrong number of items in the list. For example, if a list has 5 members, the Liar class might say it has 8 or 2. You'll probably need super() for this.
Bummer: TypeError: init() missing 1 required positional argument: 'value'
class Liar(list):
def __init__(self,value):
self.value = value
def __len__(self):
super().__len__()
return len(self.value) + 3
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Steven Parker
230,688 PointsThe instructions say to "Override the __len__
method", but they do not ask you to override the __init__
method (or to add a required parameter)
Also, when you call the base "len" method, you don't use the value it returns. But you might want to.
Manyung Tah
7,445 PointsManyung Tah
7,445 Pointsthank you!