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Chris Henk
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Christopher Henk/US/ATD/GMC
08/31/2007 04:13 PM
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Re: [Tutor] Starting classes
The class definition will only have the methods and/or the variables in
its definition.
So these two functions make up your class
class Area:
def _init_(self, name, description):
self.name = name
def look(here):
"Look around the place you are in"
print here.description
looking at the class code:
your init function only has one underscore before and after init, you want
two, that is why you are getting the error.
def __init__(self, name, description):
Also you are requiring two arguments to make an Area class, the name and
the description.
If you try to create an instance using only the name (as you do below) the
interpreter will again raise an error.
def look(here):
"Look around the place you are in"
print here.description
Not sure if this works as is, I believe it depends on the interpreter, but
it is customary to use the word self as the first parameter, and then also
change here in the function body
def look(self):
"Look around the place you are in"
print self.description
Getting into the code below the class definition:
>outside1 = Area("Outside")
This will raise an error since you required two parameters to create an
Area class and you only provide one.
You can either add the description here or leave it off in the __init__
function.
Since most likely every area will have a description , I would add it
here.
outside1 = Area("Outside","You are standing outside with the town gate to
your back")
outside1.description = "You are standing outside with the town gate to
your back"
(see above, and below)
self.contents.append("dirt")
Here we have two problems. The first is the class doesn't have the
"contents" attribute yet That's only a problem since you are trying to
call a function with it.
When you assign to an attribute (like with "description" in the line
above), you are adding the attribute to you class instance ("outside1"),
however you need to add it before you can use it.
Second, you only use self from within the function definition. In this
case you would want to use outside1.contents.
look(bedroom)
Since look was defined in the class definition, you would want to call it
like this.
bedroom.look()
But as of right now there is no bedroom created, so this will give an
error.
however you can instead look outside.
outside1.look()
Looking at your code I would have a class something like this:
class Area:
#what does an area have that makes it an area?
contents=None
name=None
description=None
paths=None #where you can go
def __init__(self, name, description):
#define what everything will start as
self.name = name
self.discription=None
self.contents=[]
self.paths={}
#Methods:
#what can you do to an Area?
def look(self):
"Look around the place you are in"
print self.description
def addSomething(self,thing):
"adds something to the contents"
def removeSomething(self,thing)
"remove from contents"
def addPath(self,direction,area)
"Adds a connection to area"
#...
#more as needed
Chris Henk
"Ara Kooser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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[Tutor] Starting classes
Hello,
I read Alan Gauld's and How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
section on classes. So I tried to write a simple room class. My goal
is to write a short text adventure using classes. Here is the code:
class Area:
def _init_(self, name, description):
self.name = name
def look(here):
"Look around the place you are in"
print here.description
outside1 = Area("Outside")
outside1.description = "You are standing outside with the town gate to
your back"
self.contents.append("dirt")
look(bedroom)
I get the following error.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/ara/Documents/text_advent.py", line 11, in <module>
outside1 = Area("Outside")
TypeError: this constructor takes no arguments
Do the outside1 = Area("Outside) need to be nested in the class or can
they be outside of it?
Thank you.
Ara
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