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Python Object-Oriented Python (retired) Inheritance __str__

luke hammer
luke hammer
25,513 Points
Posted by luke hammer
luke hammer
25,513 Points

Python inheritance question

This is the question form the test. Add a str method to GameScore that returns the score in the string "Player 1: 5; Player 2: 10", using the correct values from self.score. self.score is a tuple with Player 1's score and Player 2's score like (5, 10). You do not need to define self.score. It comes from the Game class.

I don't know how to debug and see what is happening wrong here.

game_str.py 
from game import Game
class GameScore(Game):
  def __str__(self):
    score = self.score.self.score
    message = "Player 1: {0} Player 2: {1}".format(score[0],score[1])
    print("this is a test")
    return message
luke hammer
luke hammer
25,513 Points
luke hammer
luke hammer
25,513 Points

cool got it 

from game import Game
class GameScore(Game):
  def __str__(self):
    score = self.score
    message = "Player 1: {0}; Player 2: {1}".format(score[0],score[1])
    return message

3 Answers

Cory Madden
Cory Madden
7,120 Points

You don't need to redefine score there, and if you were to that's not how you would do it. self.score doesn't have a property called "self" so that's not going to succeed. However, the format logic looks sound.

luke hammer
luke hammer
25,513 Points
luke hammer
luke hammer
25,513 Points

So i attempt this but this also does not work. 

from game import Game
class GameScore(Game):
  def __str__(self):
    #score = self.score.self.score
    message = "Player 1: {0} Player 2: {1}".format(self.score.self.score[0],self.score.self.score[1])
    return message
Cory Madden
Cory Madden
7,120 Points

You're still doing:

self.score.self.score

Just do:

self.score
luke hammer
luke hammer
25,513 Points
luke hammer
luke hammer
25,513 Points

Cool got it!! thank you !!

Jeremy Kerrigan
Jeremy Kerrigan
12,002 Points
Jeremy Kerrigan
Jeremy Kerrigan
12,002 Points

I solved it like this by unpacking the tuple into 2 separate variables x, y

from game import Game

class GameScore(Game):
  pass

  def __str__(self):
    x, y = self.score
    return "Player 1: {}; Player 2: {}".format(x, y)
Mehran Moradi
Mehran Moradi
11,140 Points
Mehran Moradi
Mehran Moradi
11,140 Points

I still could not solve this problem #kenneth