Question

This is the code so far:

class Player:
    hand = []
    def take(self, card):
        hand.append(card)

And this is the error when I call that function:

    hand.append(card)
NameError: global name 'hand' is not defined

I have tried making it global like so:

class Player:
    hand = []
    def take(self, card):
        global hand
        hand.append(card)

it didn’t help.

Answer 1

Try referencing the variable ‘hand’ through the ‘self’ pointer:

class Player:
    hand = []
    def take(self, card):
        self.hand.append(card)

In Python, in a member function the self pointer always contains the value of the instance of the class that the function was called on, allowing you to edit the members of that instance.