[Tutor] Livewires - stuck on a class

[Alan Gauld]

"Tonu Mikk" <tmikk at umn.edu> wrote

> I create more robots in this way which seems to work:
> class Robot:
>    pass

By using an empty class you are losing m,uch of the power of classes.

Try this:

class Robot:
    def __init__(self, x, y, shape=None):
        self.x = x
        self.y = y
        robot.junk = 0
        if shape == None:
           self.shape = box(10*x, 10*y, 10*x+10, 10*y+10)

def place_robots(numRobots):
    return = [Robot(random_between(0,47)-0.5, 
random_between(0,63)-0.5) for x in range(numRobots)]

And instead of your random fiunction you could use the standard 
library
function random.randrange()


> Then I was hoping to repeat the sequence for moving the robots 
> placed in
> the robots list by using this code:
> for x in robots:
>    # code for moving the robots
>
> When I run the code, only one of the robots moves on the screen. I 
> am
> not quite sure what I am doing wrong.

Without seeing the robot moving code neither are we.

But as a hiunt try putting the code for moving a robot into the Robot 
class
Then you should be abe to do

for robot in robots:
    robot.move(x,y)

> Incidentally,  I am finding the Livewires course to be quite 
> challenging
> for a beginning programmer.  It seems to introduce many advanced 
> topics
> with little preparation.  I am using other Internet based tutorials 
> on
> the side, but still having trouble.  I wonder if it is me being 
> hmm -
> dumb, or is the Livewires just tricky.

>From what I've seen of posts about Livewires I think its quite a
challenging course for a complete beginner. But OTOH it seems
to be the one with the most fun problems! :-)

BTW I just spotted this.... If this is the move code you
were talking about then...

> def move_robot():
>    for x in robots:
>        while 1:
>            if robot.x + 0.5< player.x and robot.y +0.5< player.y:

You are doing *for x in robots* but then moving *robot* not x.

>From your robot placement code robot is set to the last robot
you created so it will only ever mover that robot.

To make this a method of the class you wuill need to pass
the player object that you are comparing with.
So the method will look like:

class Robot:
   def __init__(...): as above
   def move(self, player):
         code as per the function but using self.x instead of robot.x 
etc

Also it would be better IMHO to use if/elif rather than all those 
if/breaks.

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Alan Gauld
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