John Salerno wrote: > 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.
> 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? Try it: Fighter(...) will implicitly call Character.__init__(...). Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
