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Python Basic Object-Oriented Python Welcome to OOP Adding to our Panda

Posted by Bryan Ziel
Bryan Ziel
2,483 Points

This code challenge test is wrong

This code challenge keeps failing for me even though it runs correctly in workspace. I have to instantiate the class in the workspace, but the instructions do not say to do that. The test is failing saying it is not finding the proper return string.

panda.py 
class Panda:
    species = 'Ailuropoda melanoleuca'
    food = 'bamboo'

    def __init__(self, name, age):
        self.is_hungry = True
        self.name = name
        self.age = age

    def eat(self):
        self.is_hungry = False
        return(f'{self.name} eats {self.food}.')

2 Answers

Jeff Muday
MOD
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,716 Points
Jeff Muday
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,716 Points

Check the hint at the end of the answer ;-)

Sorry you are feeling frustrated. More than a few times I felt frustrated and angry at the challenge grader because it didn't appear to work.

You shouldn't have to instantiate the object because the unit test does that. Also note that the challenge grader is a stupid automaton, so it didn't accept my answer the first time because I omitted the '.' character at the end. ;-)

Hint: remove the parenthesis on the return value. That should remove one of your difficulties.

Bryan Ziel
Bryan Ziel
2,483 Points
Bryan Ziel
Bryan Ziel
2,483 Points

Ah, thank you for the hint, I have now gotten past that challenge. It would be nice if the grader actually passed based on what was returned, not just a regex matching a text pattern.

Beyond that I still think this question should be reworded. It says the string would return "Bao Bao eats bamboo" but the code does not set name="Bao Bao" anywhere, so that was another very confusing part of the challenge. Maybe add an additional instruction to instantiate the class setting name="Bao Bao".