[Tutor] Objects & Classes...

[Jack Cruzan]

Ok, so each character has his name, race, his stats, his skills, and his
gear.

since the name and character is unique there is no need for a class
these things.

hmmm maybe I am conceptualizing this wrong.

would each new character then be a dictonary? Made up of different
elements or would the character be a list? Since each character is
basically just a list of stats... the stats get modified up and down by
race and certain gear... am I conceptulizing this correctly?

On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 10:59 -0800, Chad Crabtree wrote:
> Jack Cruzan wrote:
> 
> >class Character:
> >
> >	def __init__(self, name = ' ', race = 'Human', magic = 'None'):
> >
> >		self.name=name
> >
> >		self.race=race
> >
> >		self.magic=magic
> >  
> >
> I know your going to need some other stuff.
> 
> class NewCharacter(Character):
>     def __init__(self,stats,*args,**kwds):
>        super(Character,self).__init__(*args,**kwds)
>        self.stats=stats
> 
> super is a function that calls a specific function from a parent
> class.  
> This way you can still use the previous __init__ code and then extend
> 
> it.  *args represents a tuple of arguments of unspecified length or 
> type, **kwds is a dictionary of named arguments, like name='' like 
> above.  That way you capture the keywords needed to pass to the
> parent 
> class so that name race magic is still updated at class
> instantiation.
> 
> This way you can extend classes.  So you *could* subclass Character
> as a 
> Dwarf, a Troll etc so that each class already knows about being a
> Dwarf, 
> eg special abilities skill bonuses and such.  If you don't understand
> 
> this, that's ok it took me quite a while.  However once I got this it
> 
> made certain tasks much easier.  I could figure out how to do
> something, 
> then never need to think about how it works later in the project.
> 
> >def createChar(book):
> >
> >	name = raw_input("Enter your character's name. ")
> >
> >	race = int(raw_input("What race? (1: Human, 2: Elf, 3: Ork, 4:
> Troll,
> >
> >5: Dwarf,)"))
> >
> >	book[name] = race
> >
> >  
> >
> try this (untested)
> 
> races={1:'Human',2:'Elf',3:'Ork',4:'Troll',5:'Dwarf'} #this is a
> dictionary
> book[name]=races[race]
> print "The Name is " + name
> print "The Race is " + book[name]
> 
> >def loadChar(book):
> >
> >	import os
> >
> >	filename = 'SRchargen.dat'
> >
> >	if os.path.exists(filename):
> >
> >		store = open(filename,'r')
> >
> >		while store:
> >
> >			name = store.readline().strip()
> >
> >			race = store.readline().strip()
> >
> >			book[name] = race
> >
> >		else:
> >
> >			store = open(filename, 'w')
> >
> >		store.close
> >  
> >
> I'm not sure why this doesn't work, perhaps you should post what is
> in 
> 'SRchargen.dat'.  You do know that this format will only work with
> one 
> character?  Do you get an error? If so post that traceback message.
> 
> Anyway good luck.
> 
> 
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