Hello,

I am new to Python and this is my first time asking a stackOverflow question, but a long time reader. I am working on a simple card based game but am having trouble managing instances of my Hand class. If you look below you can see that the hand class is a simple container for cards(which are just int values) and each Player class contains a hand class. However, whenever I create multiple instances of my Player class they all seem to manipulate a single instance of the Hand class. From my experience in C and Java it seems that I am somehow making my Hand class static. If anyone could help with this problem I would appreciate it greatly.

Thank you, Thad

To clarify: An example of this situation would be

p = player.Player()
p1 = player.Player()
p.recieveCard(15)
p1.recieveCard(21)
p.viewHand()

which would result in: [15,21]
even though only one card was added to p

Hand class:

class Hand:

    index = 0
    cards = [] #Collections of cards

    #Constructor
    def __init__(self):
        self.index
        self.cards

    def addCard(self, card):
        """Adds a card to current hand"""
        self.cards.append(card)
        return card

    def discardCard(self, card):
        """Discards a card from current hand"""
        self.cards.remove(card)
        return card

    def viewCards(self):
        """Returns a collection of cards"""
        return self.cards

    def fold(self):
        """Folds the current hand"""
        temp = self.cards
        self.cards = []
        return temp

Player Class

import hand
class Player:

 name = ""
 position = 0
 chips = 0
 dealer = 0
        pHand = []

 def __init__ (self, nm, pos, buyIn, deal):
            self.name = nm
            self.position = pos
            self.chips = buyIn
            self.dealer = deal

            self.pHand = hand.Hand()
            return

        def recieveCard(self, card):
            """Recieve card from the dealer"""
            self.pHand.addCard(card)
            return card

        def discardCard(self, card):
            """Throw away a card"""
            self.pHand.discardCard(card)
            return card

        def viewHand(self):
            """View the players hand"""
            return self.pHand.viewCards()

        def getChips(self):
            """Get the number of chips the player currently holds"""
            return self.chips

        def setChips(self, chip):
            """Sets the number of chips the player holds"""
            self.chips = chip
            return

        def makeDealer(self):
            """Makes this player the dealer"""
            self.dealer = 1
            return

        def notDealer(self):
            """Makes this player not the dealer"""
            self.dealer = 0
            return

        def isDealer(self):
            """Returns flag wether this player is the dealer"""
            return self.dealer

        def getPosition(self):
            """Returns position of the player"""
            return self.position

        def getName(self):
            """Returns name of the player"""
            return self.name