Question

I have a class as follows:

class Hand():
    def __init__(self, hand_a, play_deck, split_count, name): # hand_a for hand actual
        self.hand_a = hand_a  # the actual hand when instance created
        self.play_deck = play_deck  #  need to move this to deck class
        self.split_count = split_count
        self.name = name

In another class I create an instance of Hand:

class DECK():
    def __init__(self):
        pass

    def deal(self, play_deck):
        dhand = {}
        phand = {}
        for i in range (2):
            play_deck, phand[i] = pick_item(play_deck)
            play_deck, dhand[i] = pick_item(play_deck)

        # creat instance of Hand for player's starting hand
        self.start_hand = Hand(phand, play_deck, 0, "Player 1")

In a third class I’m trying to access my first instance of Hand called ‘start_hand’:

class Game():
    def __init__(self):
        pass

    def play_game(self):
        self.deck = DECK()
        self.deck.deal(play_deck)
        print "dhand = %r" % start_hand.hand_a

But I get the following error:

   print "dhand = %r" % start_hand.hand_a
NameError: global name 'start_hand' is not defined

I’ve also tried:

print "dhand = %r" % self.start_hand.hand_a

but I get the following error:

    print "dhand = %r" % self.start_hand.hand_a
AttributeError: Game instance has no attribute 'start_hand'

Do I have to create the class instance in some other way, or do I have to access it differently or both? Or am I just so way off that I should start over?

Answer 1

Your start_hand is a member of deck object.

print "dhand = %r" % self.deck.start_hand.hand_a