There's not alot you can do about 'self' in general, but if you reference a
particular attribute or function many times you can avoid self by creating a
local reference to the attribute or function. In your example could replace
the last two lines with:
game = self.game
game.playsound ("boom")
game.spawn ("item")
Of course, this would be a much more useful optimisation in cases with many
more references to 'self.game' within a single function or in cases where
'self.game' appears in a loop.
What it really sounds like you are looking for is something like Pascal's
'with' statement, which basically treats a record or object's attributes as
locals. Python's 'with' statement has an entirely different function and
purpose, of course. . .
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Jake b <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a shortcut or easier way than what I am doing? Because having to
> use the same reference in every object seems redundant?
> I am using a
>
> I feel I am spamming "self." A lot of my classes have a lot of "self."
> lines Example of random code:
>
> class Unit():
> def onCollide(self, other):
> if self.modifiedHP() - other.damage() < 0:
> self.die()
> self.game.playsound("boom")
> self.game.spawn("item")
>
> So I'm looking for advice on if this is normal? Or bad code?
> --
> Jake
>
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