On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 07:20 pm, Leam Hall wrote: > OOP newbie on Python 2.6.
Python 2.6 is ancient, and is missing many nice features. You should consider using the latest version, 3.6. > I create instances of Character class with an attribute dict of > 'skills'. The 'skills' dict has the name of a skill as the key and an > int as a value. The code adds or modifies skills before outputting the > Character. > > Is it better design to have a Character.method that takes a 'skill' key > and optional value or to have a general function that takes an instance, > a dict, a key, and an optional value? I'm afraid your example is too generic for me to give an opinion. Do you literally mean a method called "method"? What does it do? -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list