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daniel steinberg
14,651 PointsSneaky, Agile code
what is the purpose of setting sneaky = True at the beginning of the code when you specify at as True in the init function. I tried commenting the first line out and the code runs fine. Why is it there?
class Sneaky:
sneaky = True
def __init__(self, sneaky=True, *args, **kwargs):
super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
self.sneaky = sneaky
def hide(self, light_level):
return self.sneaky and light_level < 10
1 Answer

Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,154 PointsGood question! As the code is written, there is no purpose for the class attribute assignment to sneaky
.
You are correct, in that the instance attribute assignment to self.sneaky
inside __init__
will override the class attribute.
Post back if you need more help. Good luck!!!