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MJ49
MJ49

Reputation: 123

Why is this returning two values? Easy python beginner

Can someone please explain why my enter method in the following class is returning two values? I'm learning python and in the process of creating a simple game to grasp OOP and classes. Anyhow I need the enter method to return a random snippet from the snippets list. But I keep getting two snippets instead of one. Can someone explain why? 

    from sys import exit
    from random import randint




  class Island(object):

    def enter(self):
     pass



  class Loser(Island):
    snippets = ["Welcome to loser Island",
            "Can't win them all", 
            "There's always next time"]             
   def enter(self): 
      print Loser.snippets[randint(0,len(self.snippets)-1)]



  loser_test = Loser()
  loser_test.enter()

Upvotes: 0

Views: 60

Answers (3)

TigerhawkT3
TigerhawkT3

Reputation: 49330

Generally, you'll create a class and then describe the behavior and contents of an instance of that class. An instance of a class is an object whose type is that class. For example, john = Person('John', 'Doe') would create a Person object, sending 'John' and 'Doe' to the object's __init__ method (a constructor).

The following sticks to instances of a class by making use of the word self. self is not a keyword (like in); it's just the word that an object's description uses to refer to the object itself. You can use any word (like xyz in for xyz in [1,2,3]), but self is preferred.

>>> import random
>>> class L(object):
...     def __init__(self):
...             self.snippets = ["Welcome", "Can't", "There's"]
...     def enter(self):
...             print (random.choice(self.snippets))
...
>>> l = L()
>>> l.enter()
There's
>>> l.enter()
There's
>>> l.enter()
Welcome
>>> l.enter()
Can't
>>>

Upvotes: 1

Joran Beasley
Joran Beasley

Reputation: 114038

Im going to take a guess and say its because you have something like this

class Island:
    def __init__(self):
        print self.enter()

but its really a stab in the dark ... since you have not provided enough information to actually answer your question. ... (really I guess this question should be closed until OP provides sufficient datas)

you can test this by just running 

loser_test = Loser()

and if you see a print that is almost definately your problem

Upvotes: 0

Cory Kramer
Cory Kramer

Reputation: 117961

Why don't you just use random.choice

def enter(self): 
    print random.choice(self.snippets)

Upvotes: 3

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