[Tutor] Bound To Be A Typo

[Michael Langford]

Its "under under", not "under under under" before and after init

         --Michael

On 12/17/07, earlylight publishing <earlylightpublishing at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Okay I copied this code directly from a book (author Michael Dawson) and
> it's not working.  I'm sure I've missed something obvious like the spacing
> or something but I've been staring at it for 10 minutes and I can't see it.
> I'll put the code and error message below.  Can someone else spot the
> problem?
>
> class Critter(object):
>     """A virtual pet"""
>     def ___init___(self, name):
>         print "A new critter has been born!"
>         self.name = name
>
>     def __str__(self):
>         rep = "Critter object\n"
>         rep += "name: " + self.name + "\n"
>         return rep
>
>     def talk(self):
>         print "Hi, I'm", self.name, "\n"
> #main
> crit1 = Critter("Poochie")
> crit1.talk()
>
> Here's the error message:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:/Python25/attributecrit.py", line 15, in <module>
>     crit1 = Critter("Poochie")
> TypeError: default __new__ takes no parameters
>
>
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