[Tutor] Bound To Be A Typo

[Michael H. Goldwasser]

You've inadvertently used three underscores around __init__ rather
than two, and therefore you are not really defining __init__ but
instead are relying upon the inherited one from object (which takes no
parameters).

With regard,
Michael

On Monday December 17, 2007, earlylight publishing 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