Sorting a list of class instances

[Gerson Kurz]

On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 17:29:11 GMT, "Grant Ito" <Grant_Ito at shaw.ca>
wrote:

>class Deck(list):
>    def __init__(self, numCards):
>        self = []
>        for i in range(numCards):
>            self.append(Card(i))

The stmt "self = []" is reassigning the variable "self". "self" is not
a keyword like "this" in python, its just a convention. 

What you want to do is: initialize the list class (the
"list.__init__(self)" in the example below) instead:

class Deck(list):
    def __init__(self, numCards):
        list.__init__(self) # <-------- initialize list baseclass
        for i in range(numCards):
            self.append(Card(i))