John Salerno wrote:
> My code is below. For now I'm focusing on the lines where health (and
> armor) are increased in each character class. Let's say I decided to
> change the amount of increase in the future. As it is now, I'd have to
> go to each character class and change the number so that each is still
> in a good relation to the other (right now: 3, 2, 1; later: perhaps 4,
> 3, 2, 1, if I added a new class -- i.e., change Fighter from 3 to 4,
> Thief from 2 to 3, in other words increase them all by 1). So instead of
> changing each one, is there a simple, clean way of just changing a
> single number so that this change is reflected in all classes? Hope that
> makes sense.
>
>
>
> class Character(object):
> def __init__(self, name, strength, dexterity, intelligence):
> self.name = name
> self.health = 10
> self.armor = self.attack = self.defense = self.magic_attack = \
> self.magic_defense = 0
> self.strength = strength
> self.dexterity = dexterity
> self.intelligence = intelligence
> self.adjust_attributes()
>
> def adjust_attributes(self):
> pass
>
>
> class Fighter(Character):
> def adjust_attributes(self):
> self.health += 3
> self.armor += 3
> self.attack += 2
> self.defense += 2
> self.strength += 1
>
>
> class Thief(Character):
> def adjust_attributes(self):
> self.health += 2
> self.armor += 2
> self.attack += 1
> self.defense += 1
> self.magic_defense += 1
> self.dexterity += 1
>
>
> class Mage(Character):
> def adjust_attributes(self):
> self.health += 1
> self.armor += 1
> self.magic_attack += 2
> self.magic_defense += 2
> self.intelligence += 1
The place to do this seems to be in the Character class.
class Character(object):
_health_base_inc = 1
_armor_base_inc = 1
# etc
def __init__(self, name, strength, dexterity, intelligence):
self.name = name
self.health = 10
self.armor = self.attack = self.defense = self.magic_attack = \
self.magic_defense = 0
self.strength = strength
self.dexterity = dexterity
self.intelligence = intelligence
self.adjust_attributes()
def adjust_attributes(self):
pass
class Mage(Character):
# for symmetry with Character
_health_char_inc = 1
_armor_char_inc = 1
# etc
def adjust_attributes(self):
self.health += self._health_char_inc + self_health_base_inc
self.armor += self._armor_char_inc + self._armor_base_inc
# etc
James
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Los Angeles, CA 90095
http://www.jamesstroud.com/
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