A Concise Introduction to Programming in Python

Chapter 24

Cooperating Classes

Classes are rarely used in isolation. Their power comes from interactions be-

tween objects, and choosing useful classes is the art of object-oriented design.

The dice game Chuck-a-Luck provides a good example of a relatively simple

game with enough complexity to warrant more than one class. Three dice are

rolled, and the player needs to guess one of the numbers that will appear. If

the number appears (either 1, 2, or 3 times), the player wins that many units;

otherwise, the player loses one unit.

Listing 24.1: Chuck-a-Luck

1 # chuck.py

2

3 from dice import Dice

4

5 class ChuckALuck:

6 def __init__(self):

7 self.dice = Dice(3) ...