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Michael Braun
6,753 PointsWhere is the parent class for Hand(list)
Maybe I'm missing something but I don't understand why he passes in (list) as the parent class for Hand. What parent class is Kenneth referring to? The only other classes in this game that we created are Die and D6.
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andren
28,558 Pointslist is one of the classes that are built into Python itself. It is the same class that you end up instantiating every time you use a list value in Python. And whenever you have converted something like a string to a list using list() you have actually been calling the constructor method of the list class.
In Python pretty much all of the built-in datatypes like strings, ints and the like are actually classes built into the language. Which means that you can inherit from them, and therefore create modified versions of them. Which is what Kenneth is doing in the video you are referencing.
Michael Braun
6,753 PointsGotcha! Thanks so much for explaining that to me! You're awesome!