is this the right way to do subclasses?
John Salerno
johnjsal at NOSPAMgmail.com
Wed Nov 8 14:33:01 EST 2006
Peter Otten wrote:
> One way to avoid the repetition:
>
> class Character(object):
> def __init__(self, name, strength, dexterity, intelligence):
> self.name = name
> self.health = 10
> self.strength = strength
> self.dexterity = dexterity
> self.intelligence = intelligence
> self.fix_attributes()
>
> class Fighter(Character):
> def fix_attributes(self):
> self.health += 2
> self.strength += 1
>
> You may need a no-op implementation of fix_attributes() in the Character
> class.
>
> Peter
But how does this take care of the initialization of the stats? I won't
be able to use Fighter to create a character without doing everything in
Character, right?
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