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1,503 Pointsself.slots
class Inventory:
def __init__(self):
self.slots = []
What does this slots mean?
1 Answer
Steven Parker
231,059 PointsThis code creates a new class attribute named "slots" and puts an empty list into it. The name "slots" has no special meaning other than identifying the new list.
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,426 PointsChris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,426 PointsCorrect. One additional point: Using "slots" may have been less than ideal attribute name since it may get confused with the built-in attribute management variable
__slots__
described in the Python data model docs.