I get it! Have printFood return a string!
def printFood(self):
return self.food.foodName
Now I don't get the weird output anymore!
-Chris
--- Danny Yoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> I'm going to be a little insidous and bring some
> ideas from the textbook
> "How to Design Programs." (http://htdp.org)
>
> Let's annotate each interesting method with what the
> method expects to
> take in, and what it expects to return.
>
> > def placeOrder(self, foodName, employee):
>
>
> We can say that placeOrder takes in foodName and
> employee, and returns
> None. We can write this concept as a docstring,
> using a notation like
> this:
>
> ##############################################
> def placeOrder(self, foodName, employee):
> """placeOrder: string Employee -> None
> ... [add description here]"""
> ## rest of body
> ##############################################
>
> That is, we make it clear what the expected inputs
> and outputs are.
>
>
> > def printFood(self):
>
> printFood doesn't appear to take anything useful,
> and also doesn't return
> anything useful. Again:
>
> ################################
> def printFood(self):
> """printFood: -> None"""
> ## rest of body
> ################################
>
> (Hint: this part is important. Note that
> printFood() also returns None.)
>
>
> If you do this slight annotation to the rest of the
> methods, it might make
> it easier to see why Lunch.result() is giving
> slightly weird results.
>
>
> Best of wishes!
>
>
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