What's the best way to write this base class?

[bruno.desthuilliers at gmail.com]

On 18 juin, 06:17, John Salerno <johnj... at gmail.com> wrote:

> Note: I have in mind that when a specific subclass (Warrior, Wizard,
> etc.) is created, the only argument that will ever be passed to the
> __init__ method is the name. The other variables will never be
> explicitly passed, but will be set during initialization.

__init__ is actually supposed to be the initialization phase, but well
<g>

> 1)
> class Character:

If you using Python 2.x, make this:

class Character(object):

>     def __init__(self, name, base_health=50, base_resource=10):
>         self.name = name
>         self.health = base_health
>         self.resource = base_resource


If neither base_health nor base_resource are supposed to be passed in,
why make them arguments at all:

class Character(object):
    def __init__(self, name):
        self.name = name
        self.health = 50
        self.resource = 10



> 2)
> class Character:
>
>     base_health = 50
>     base_resource = 10
>
>     def __init__(self, name):
>         self.name = name
>         self.health = base_health
>         self.resource = base_resource

Did you at least tried this one ? Hint: it won't work.

> 3)
> BASE_HEALTH = 50
> BASE_RESOURCE = 10
>
> class Character:
>
>     def __init__(self, name):
>         self.name = name
>         self.health = BASE_HEALTH
>         self.resource = BASE_RESOURCE

This is probably what I'd do.