Season 2: The Python Team · Episode 5 of 8
Meet the Creator Object
You play: AI Engineering Trainee
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The situation
Code Nexus keeps a creator's data in about six different dictionaries across the codebase, and they drift out of sync — the dashboard shows a follower count the report doesn't. The team wants one small, understandable object per creator.
What you'll learn
- PCAP 4.1-4.3 and 4.6: defining classes, instances vs the class, attributes and methods, `self`, `__init__`, instance state vs class state, and name mangling.
- __str__ versus the default representation, __dict__, hasattr, getattr and setattr, name mangling, and why __init__ returns None.
Who you work with
Maya Chen
Senior AI Engineer · Your mentor
Leo Martins
Product Manager
Scenes
- 1.Six dicts, one truth
- 2.Shared or per-instance?
- 3.What does print(obj) show?
- 4.Build Creator and Report
- 5.The silent mutation
- 6.Objects check
What you leave with
Code Nexus has one Creator object per creator that validates its own follower count, and a Report built from Creator objects that asks each one for its engagement rather than reaching into its attributes. You also found the shared-list defect that was merging every creator's history.