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J.Warnking
J.Warnking

Reputation: 11

create object in a parent class

I'm coding a card game. How do I assign my already created cards to an object through the parent class?

I tried to create a new object with like this:

name = Card(suit1, face1, value1)

but since I declare the name before that it doesn't work properly. If I print the names after I define the variable name the output is: 7Hearts, 7Diamonds, 7Clubs, 7Spades, 8Hearts, 8Diamonds... I want to create objects in the Card class, so that the expected output for print(7Hearts.suit, 7Hearts.face, 7Hearts.value) is

>>> (Hearts, 7, 7)

or for print(AceSpades.suit, AceSpades.face, AceSpades.value)

>>> (Spades, Ace, 11)

from random import *
class Card(object):
    def __init__(self, suit, face, value):
        self.suit = suit
        self.face = face
        self.value = value


class Deck(Card):
    def __init__(self):

        suits = ['Hearts', 'Diamonds', 'Clubs', 'Spades']
        ranks = range(7, 15)
        for rank1 in ranks:
            for suit1 in suits:
                if rank1 == 11:
                    face1 = 'Jack'
                    value1 = 2
                elif rank1 == 12:
                    face1 = 'Queen'
                    value1 = 3
                elif rank1 == 13:
                    face1 = 'King'
                    value1 = 4
                elif rank1 == 14:
                    face1 = 'Ace'
                    value1 = 11
                else:
                    face1 = str(rank1)
                    value1 = rank1

                name = "{0}{1}".format(face1, suit1)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 43

Answers (1)

chepner
chepner

Reputation: 531165

You neither need or want inheritance here. A Deck is simply a collection of cards.

class Deck(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.cards = []
        suits = ['Hearts', 'Diamonds', 'Clubs', 'Spades'],
        ranks = {11: 'Jack', 12: 'Queen', 13: 'King', 14: 'Ace'}
        values = {11: 2, 12: 3, 13: 4, 14: 11}
        for suit in suits:
            for rank in range(7,15):
                card_rank = ranks.get(rank, str(rank))
                value = values.get(value, value)
                self.cards.append(Card(suit, card_rank, value))

You might use inheritance to represent different kinds of decks: poker deck, pinochle deck, etc. Deck itself would have methods for things like shuffling, but each subclass would construct the Card objects appropriate for that deck.

Upvotes: 2

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