Creating a grandchild class

In this exercise you will be using inheritance to create a Tweets class from your SocialMedia class. This new grandchild class of Tweets will be able to tackle Twitter specific details such as retweets.

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Software Engineering Principles in Python

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Exercise instructions

Complete the class statement so that Tweets inherits from SocialMedia. SocialMedia has already been loaded in your environment.
Use super() to call the __init__ method of the parent class.
Define retweet_text. Use help() to complete the call to filter_lines with the correct parameter name. filter_lines has already been loaded in your environment.
return retweet_text from _process_retweets as an instance of SocialMedia.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Define a Tweet class that inherits from SocialMedia
class Tweets(____):
    def __init__(self, text):
        # Call parent's __init__ with super()
        ____
        # Define retweets attribute with non-public method
        self.retweets = self._process_retweets()

    def _process_retweets(self):
        # Filter tweet text to only include retweets
        retweet_text = filter_lines(self.text, ____='RT')
        # Return retweet_text as a SocialMedia object
        return ____(retweet_text)

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