Managing Instances in Python
- by BeensTheGreat
Hello,
I am new to Python and this is my first time asking a stackOverflow question, but a long time reader. I am working on a simple card based game but am having trouble managing instances of my Hand class. If you look below you can see that the hand class is a simple container for cards(which are just int values) and each Player class contains a hand class. However, whenever I create multiple instances of my Player class they all seem to manipulate a single instance of the Hand class. From my experience in C and Java it seems that I am somehow making my Hand class static. If anyone could help with this problem I would appreciate it greatly.
Thank you,
Thad
To clarify: An example of this situation would be
p = player.Player()
p1 = player.Player()
p.recieveCard(15)
p1.recieveCard(21)
p.viewHand()
which would result in:
[15,21]
even though only one card was added to p
Hand class:
class Hand:
index = 0
cards = [] #Collections of cards
#Constructor
def __init__(self):
self.index
self.cards
def addCard(self, card):
"""Adds a card to current hand"""
self.cards.append(card)
return card
def discardCard(self, card):
"""Discards a card from current hand"""
self.cards.remove(card)
return card
def viewCards(self):
"""Returns a collection of cards"""
return self.cards
def fold(self):
"""Folds the current hand"""
temp = self.cards
self.cards = []
return temp
Player Class
import hand
class Player:
name = ""
position = 0
chips = 0
dealer = 0
pHand = []
def __init__ (self, nm, pos, buyIn, deal):
self.name = nm
self.position = pos
self.chips = buyIn
self.dealer = deal
self.pHand = hand.Hand()
return
def recieveCard(self, card):
"""Recieve card from the dealer"""
self.pHand.addCard(card)
return card
def discardCard(self, card):
"""Throw away a card"""
self.pHand.discardCard(card)
return card
def viewHand(self):
"""View the players hand"""
return self.pHand.viewCards()
def getChips(self):
"""Get the number of chips the player currently holds"""
return self.chips
def setChips(self, chip):
"""Sets the number of chips the player holds"""
self.chips = chip
return
def makeDealer(self):
"""Makes this player the dealer"""
self.dealer = 1
return
def notDealer(self):
"""Makes this player not the dealer"""
self.dealer = 0
return
def isDealer(self):
"""Returns flag wether this player is the dealer"""
return self.dealer
def getPosition(self):
"""Returns position of the player"""
return self.position
def getName(self):
"""Returns name of the player"""
return self.name
