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Python Object-Oriented Python (retired) Inheritance Score Method

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Score method doesn't pass

I'm not sure why this score method doesn't pass - it only says try again. If I try it as a list outside a class that seems to work, but not within unfortunately?

game.py 
class Game:
  def __init__(self):
    self.current_score = [0, 0]

  def score(self):
    self.current_score[0]= self.current_score[0] + 1

4 Answers

Mikael Enarsson
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Mikael Enarsson
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The key to this problem is that you have to be able to choose which player's score to increase. So, your function header should take two arguments, self and one more, e.g. player

def score(self, player)

The rest is fine, just adjust for being able to choose player ^^

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Thanks, wow am I finding the questions on this course incredibly frustrating and really vaguely defined - maybe it's just me.

anyway this doesn't work either. What is the player argument; an int between 0 and 1 or 1 and 2?

class Game:
  def __init__(self):
    self.current_score = [0, 0]


  def score(self, player):
    self.current_score[player] = self.current_score[player] + 1
Mikael Enarsson
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Mikael Enarsson
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Look in the description, the player value is passed in as either 1 or 2, but list starts from 0, i.e. player 1 is at index 0 and player 2 at index 1.

And I agree, some questions are nigh incomprehensible.

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Thanks

Mikael Enarsson
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Mikael Enarsson
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No problem ^^ I hope you didn't find my answers to vague, I tend to prefer to attempt to guide to the solution rather than just give the solution.

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No no at all that's fine, I didn't realise that player 1,2 meant it would be an input

Done now thanks for your help.