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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 23:48:12 -0400
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On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 20:13:31 -0700 (PDT), Kris Mesenbrink
<krismesenbrink@gmail.com> declaimed the following:

>the Classes and __init__ still don't make much sense actually. i have tried and tried again to make it generate numbers between 0 and 5 in a while statement but it just doesn't seem to be working. 
>
>import random
>
>
>class Player():
>    hp = 10
>    def __init__(self, patt):
>        self.att = random.randint(0,5)
>
>
>
>while Player.hp == 10:
>    print (Player.__init__)
>
>atm it seems to be printing "<function Player.__init__ at 0x0000000002954EA0>" over and over again, i don't mind the repetition but from my understanding there should be numbers there. numbers that change. crazy frustrating that i just don't understand how this works.

1)	You fail to create an INSTANCE of a Player...

2)	You set a classwide (ie, ALL instances will have the value) "hp" to a
value of 10

3)	You then loop AS LONG AS the classwide value is 10 (ie; forever)

4)	 You are printing a reference to the __init__ method of the class

5)	 You defined __init__ to take some argument, which you need to pass to
the instance creation


	__init__ is called when you create an instance of the class... that is:

instance = Player()

	Unless you do something IN the __init__ method to change self.hp the
loop will never end.


class Player(object):	#I'm still in Python 2.x, so inheriting from object
						#is needed to get a "new-style" class

	def __init__(self, patt):
		self.hp =  random.randint(0,11)
		self.patt = patt		#no idea what you  intend to do with this

while True:
	aplayer = Player("Junk")	#"Junk" will be bound to self.patt
								#aplayer is an instance of Player with
								#a random hp value
	print aplayer.hp
	if aplayer.hp == 10: break

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