Playing Card Class

PlayingCard.py

class PlayingCard:
    'Common base class for all playing cards'
    deckCount = 0
    cardNameMap = {
        1: 'Ace',
        11: 'Jack',
        12: 'Queen',
        13: 'King'
    }

    # type is an integer between 1 and 13
    # suit is a string (later we could implement a suitNameMap if necessary)

    def __init__(self, type, suit):
        self.type = type
        self.suit = suit
        PlayingCard.deckCount += 1

    def name(self):
        if (self.type > 1 and self.type <= 10):
            return self.type
        else:
            return PlayingCard.cardNameMap[self.type]

    def properName(self):
        return "{0} of {1}".format(self.name(), self.suit)

    def displayCount(self):
        return "Total Playing Cards: {0}".format(PlayingCard.deckCount)

# This would create first object of PlayingCard class
cardOne = PlayingCard(13, "Hearts")
cardTwo = PlayingCard(1, "Spades")
cardThree = PlayingCard(7, "Clubs")

# cards have an attribute of type
print cardOne.type
# they have a function of name
print cardOne.name()
# they have another function properName
print cardOne.properName()
print cardTwo.properName()
print cardThree.properName()
# they also have a displayCount
print cardThree.displayCount()