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Unit 5 Session 1 (Click for link to problem statements)

U-nderstand

Understand what the interviewer is asking for by using test cases and questions about the problem.

• Do we need to modify any of the existing class methods?
  • No. You only need to add the new method.

P-lan

Plan the solution with appropriate visualizations and pseudocode.

General Idea: Extend the Pokemon class by adding a new method catch() which sets the is_caught attribute to True.

1) Define a method `catch` within the Pokemon class that changes `is_caught` to True.
2) This method does not take parameters other than `self` and does not return any value.

⚠️ Common Mistakes

• Not including the self parameter in the method definition.
• Attempting to return a value from a method that should only update an attribute.

I-mplement

class Pokemon:

    def __init__(self, name, types):
        self.name = name
        self.types = types
        self.is_caught = False

    def print_pokemon(self):
        print {'name': self.name, 'types': self.types,
               'is_caught': self.is_caught}

    # New code:
    def catch(self):
        self.is_caught = True