On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 1:29 PM, maiden129 <sengokubasarafe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Write the definition of a class Player containing:
> An instance variable name of type String , initialized to the empty String.
> An instance variable score of type int , initialized to zero.
> A method called set_name that has one parameter, whose value it assigns to
> the instance variable name .
> A method called set_score that has one parameter, whose value it assigns to
> the instance variable score .
> A method called get_name that has no parameters and that returns the value
> of the instance variable name .
> A method called get_score that has no parameters and that returns the value
> of the instance variable score .
> No constructor need be defined.
Is this actually a Python assignment? This sounds decidedly
un-Pythonic. A much more idiomatic way to write this would simply be
(with the explicit subclassing of object optional in Python 3):
class Player(object):
pass
You can then create a player thus:
fred = Player()
And set his name and score:
fred.name = "Fred"
fred.score = 1024
And get them just as easily:
print("Name: "+fred.name)
print("Score: "+str(fred.score))
Note how much code I wrote to make all this possible: None. In Java
and C++, the convention is to hide internal members, on the off-chance
that you might need to change a trivial getter/setter pair into
something more complicated (though in my experience, this almost never
can be done so simply even if you _have_ the getter and setter - the
only situation that that model serves is logging/breakpoints); in
Python, you get the same benefit without them, thanks to some spiffy
features that you probably don't need to worry about the details of at
the moment.
The only thing that I might want to change in the above code is to
create an __init__ member that initializes all the "normal" members -
possibly to its arguments, letting you do fred=Player("Fred",1024), or
possibly to some sort of default value. This serves as documentation
and also saves checking for AttributeError when reading from the
object. But otherwise, there's nothing in there that Python hasn't
already done for you.
ChrisA
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