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Reputation: 4764

Why my python class not working?

As shown in the code, Dog is a subclass of Pet. When I create an instance of Dog, I can't get the species of it. By the way, I am following this article?

class Pet(object):

    def __init__(self, name, species):
        self.name = name
        self.species = species

    def getName(self):
        return self.name

    def getSpecies(self):
        return self.species

    def __str__(self):
        return "{0} is a {1}".format(self.name, self.species)


class Dog(Pet):

    def __int__(self, name, chaseCats):
        Pet.__init__(self, name, "dog")
        self.chaseCats = chaseCats

    def getChaseCats(self):
        return self.chaseCats

When create an instance:

mister_dog = Dog("Huang ~", True)
print mister_dog.getSpecies()

It returns: True rather than dog.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 512

Answers (1)

Keith
Keith

Reputation: 43024

It's a typo. The subclass Dog first method is named __int__, rather than __init__. Therefore the initializer is not being defined in the subclass and you are only calling the base class's __init__ directly.

By the way, you could start using the super() method as well, rather than the unbound method.

Upvotes: 4

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