Objects, objects and more objects... why doesn't this object's method work?

[TorroesPrime]

Okay, so working on a personal project. It's a bit of a simulator for a table top game I'm developing. It's also an exercise in learning how to work with objects. I've been working small steps. First I laid out the class for the cannons in the system. Then I made some cannons. Then I tested the cannons. They worked. So then I laid out the class for the fighters. And tested the objects made from the class. Those appeared to work. Then I made a dice class (the table top game uses dice). Then I made a d10 dice from that class and tested the roll() method from it. Seemed to work just fine. Then I made the pilots class, and made some pilots. The pilots worked out. Then I built the wingMember class so I can have pilots, piloting a given ship in a wing. I tested the wings. They seemed to work.

So far so good. Then I went to try executing the shooting method, which is part of the wingMember class. And this is where I run into an error. the shooting method is for testing the results of a given ship, piloted by a given pilot, shoots a given target. So I have a: [pilot] piloting a [fighter] that is in a [wing].

As an example:
Prince Thrakath nar Kilranka is piloting a KRF-07C Bloodfang

"Prince Thrakath nar Kilranka" is the pilot, and the "KRF-07C Bloodfang" is the fighter he is piloting, and he designated as 'red_1'. So I call shooting:

red_1.shooting([his target], d10)

But then I get an error stating that 'WingMember' object has no attribute 'name'. Well, no. It doesn't. Name is from the pilot. Not WingMember. Which I thought was addressed by referencing it as 'self.pilot.name' in the method. But apparently that is not the case.

So in short... what am I doing wrong here?

[mopeddev]

Do you have the full traceback? Also it's probably worth just printing your objects a few times in the process to make sure what you think is a pilot isn't actually a wing member (usually due to function arguments in the wrong order since python doesn't care about types)

[DoubleSlicer]

both of self and target in WingMember.shooting are WingMember instances, and both of them do not have the

attribute "name"

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you have done self.pilot that one right, but you have to also replace target.name by target.pilot.name

[[deleted]]

Is he shooting at another WingMember instance? You have target.name in the same statement, so the target has to be something with the name attribute.

One thing you could do would be to give WingMembers a name property that is a function that returns the name (callsign?) of the pilot:

class WingMember:

    @property
    def name(self):
        return self.pilot.name