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I am unable to understand why I cannot pass the third test : “The draw method should behave correctly when the number of balls to extract is bigger than the number of balls in the hat.” All other tests, including the one that requires experiment method to return a different probability each time, have been passed. Can anyone understand why the third test fails

Your code so far

import copy
import random

class Hat:
    
    def __init__(self, **balls):
        self.contents = []
        for k, v in balls.items():
            self.contents.extend([k] * v)
    
    def draw(self, num_to_draw):
        num_of_balls = len(self.contents)
        
        #list to store drawn balls
        drawn_balls = []

        if num_to_draw < len(self.contents):
            for _ in range(num_to_draw):
                to_remove = random.choice(self.contents)
                drawn_balls.append(to_remove)
                self.contents.remove(to_remove)
            
            return drawn_balls

        else:
            return self.contents
            

def experiment(hat, expected_balls, num_balls_drawn, num_experiments):
  M = 0
  N = num_experiments

  for _ in range(N):
      trial_hat = copy.deepcopy(hat)
      result = trial_hat.draw(num_balls_drawn)

      drawn = {}
      for i in result:
          if i in drawn:
              drawn[i] += 1
          else:
              drawn[i] = 1
      
      fav_events = True
      for ball, count in expected_balls.items():
          if drawn.get(ball, 0) < count:
              fav_events = False
              break
      if fav_events:
          M +=1
  return M/N

hat = Hat(black=6, red=4, green=3)
probability = experiment(hat=hat,
                  expected_balls={"red":2,"green":1},
                  num_balls_drawn=5,
                  num_experiments=2000)
print(probability)

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you need to also empty self.contents other than returning it

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I don’t know why, now I am failing both third and fourth test after replacing my code with this:

def draw(self, num_to_draw):
        num_of_balls = len(self.contents)
        
        #list to store drawn balls
        drawn_balls = []

        if num_to_draw < len(self.contents):
            for _ in range(num_to_draw):
                to_remove = random.choice(self.contents)
                drawn_balls.append(to_remove)
                self.contents.remove(to_remove)

        else:
            drawn_balls = self.contents
            self.contents.clear()
            
        return drawn_balls
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that could be a shallow copy, meaning that in total you are returning an empty list

maybe use the slice syntax first to copy the content

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That was the solution. Thank you very much!

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