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Adapter example

Adapter example

- [Instructor] Let's start by defining the classes whose methods will be used by our adapter class. We have this class called Korean. It has the attribute name, which is set to Korean. And it has a method that returns a string object that says an-neyong, which means hello in English. We also have the British class that has the same attribute. However, in this case, the method name is different. It is speak_english instead of speak_korean. Let's finish the definition of this class. Here we'll say self.name, which is set to British, and the method will return a string object because this is an English speaker, will return hello. Now, let's define the adapter class that changes the generic method name into individualized method names. Let's start by defining the init method. In the init method, all we're doing is setting the attribute underscore object to the value of the argument we're receiving called object. Whatever instance of a class we're receiving is going to initialize the…

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