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Luca Vicini
Courses Plus Student 8,594 PointsDo not really understand why a class attribute is not accessible in a class method
In one of the quiz of the Object oriented Python course we have the following code:
class Orange(Fruit):
has_pulp = True
def squeeze(self):
return has_pulp
I cannot understand why:
print(Orange().squeeze())
doesn't return True
2 Answers
Steven Parker
231,268 PointsThe issue here is that since the "squeeze" method returns "has_pulp" and not "self.has_pulp" we don't have any information to really know what it will return. It might return True, perhaps there's a global variable (not shown here) that was also set to True. It could just as easily have been set to False. Or perhaps it is not defined and the function will cause a NameError exception.
So since we can't say for sure that it will return True, the statement itself is then false.
Luca Vicini
Courses Plus Student 8,594 PointsThanks you so much Steven for your explanation That was crystal clear :-)