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Adding functionality to a child class

You've just written a SocialMedia class that inherits functionality from Document. As of now, the SocialMedia class doesn't have any functionality different from Document. In this exercise, you will build features into SocialMedia to specialize it for use with Social Media data.

For reference, the definition of Document can be seen below.

class Document:
    # Initialize a new Document instance
    def __init__(self, text):
        self.text = text
        # Pre tokenize the document with non-public tokenize method
        self.tokens = self._tokenize()
        # Pre tokenize the document with non-public count_words
        self.word_counts = self._count_words()

    def _tokenize(self):
        return tokenize(self.text)

    # Non-public method to tally document's word counts
    def _count_words(self):
        # Use collections.Counter to count the document's tokens
        return Counter(self.tokens)

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Software Engineering Principles in Python

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Hands-on interactive exercise

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

# Define a SocialMedia class that is a child of the `Document class`
class SocialMedia(Document):
    def __init__(self, text):
        Document.__init__(self, text)
        self.hashtag_counts = self._count_hashtags()
        
    def _count_hashtags(self):
        # Filter attribute so only words starting with '#' remain
        return ____
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