I am writing this class to eventually create a playing card game (Spades) and also to utilize the object oriented paradigm. This was my attempt to model a card as an object. Each card has a suit and a rank that have each been given a specific weight that can be modified to fit the needs of the game. I have had several thoughts on how to implement this code differently, I thought about collapsing the weight system I had into a 1 - to 52 type system, or defining a dictionary where all cards assigned a value etc. However I decided to keep what I currently have as I feel this may yield greater flexibility to be expanded across several games. Last note, I decided to employ the Joker identity as a catch for cards that fall outside the expected input.
class Card(object):
"""Models a playing card, each Card object will have a suit, rank, and weight associated with each.
possible_suits -- List of possible suits a card object can have
possible_ranks -- List of possible ranks a card object can have
Suit and rank weights are initialized by position in list.
If card parameters are outside of expected values, card becomes joker with zero weight
"""
possible_suits = ["Clubs", "Hearts", "Diamonds", "Spades"]
possible_ranks = [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, "J", "Q", "K", "A"]
def __init__(self, suit, rank):
if suit in Card.possible_suits and rank in Card.possible_ranks:
self.suit = suit
self.rank = rank
self.suit_weight = Card.possible_suits.index(suit)
self.rank_weight = Card.possible_ranks.index(rank)
else:
self.suit = "Joker"
self.rank = "J"
self.suit_weight = 0
self.rank_weight = 0
def __str__(self):
"""Returns abbreviated name of card
Example: str(Card('Spades', 'A') outputs 'AS'
"""
return str(self.rank) + self.suit[0]
def __eq__(self, other):
"""Return True if cards are equal by suit and rank weight"""
return self.suit_weight == other.suit_weight and self.rank_weight == other.rank_weight
def __gt__(self, other):
"""Returns true if first card is greater than second card by weight"""
if self.suit_weight > other.suit_weight:
return True
if self.suit_weight == other.suit_weight:
if self.rank_weight > other.rank_weight:
return True
return False
def modify_weight(self, new_suit_weight = None, new_rank_weight = None):
"""Modifies weight of card object"""
if new_suit_weight:
self.suit_weight = new_suit_weight
if new_rank_weight:
self.rank_weight = new_rank_weight
def get_suit(self):
return self.suit
def get_rank(self):
return self.rank
def get_suit_weight(self):
return self.suit_weight
def get_rank_weight(self):
return self.rank_weight
