Comparing class instances and attaining cumulative

Question

So, I have two instances of a class Person and I am trying to do some comparisons. sunis one of several attributes of each instance is defined by two randomly generated numbers. I have the following questions... Is creating a subclass like Match the right way to go about setting up this comparison? And I want an overall "score" compiled at the end of this comparison, can I do that without the for-loop?

Person1 = Person("Person1")
Person2 = Person("Person2")


class Match(Person):

    overall = 0

    def __init__(self, Person1, Person2):
        self.Person1 = Person1
        self.Person2 = Person2

    def suns (self): 
        if abs(Person1.sun - Person2.sun) == 2 or 4 or 8 or 10:
            overall += 4

        elif abs(Person1.sun - Person2.sun) == 3 or 9: 
            overall -= 6

        elif abs(Person1.sun - Person2.sun) == 6:
            overall += 3

        else:
            overall += 0

print Match.overall

EDIT To clarify what I am trying to do... I have some basic understanding of how the astrological birth chart compatibility services work and just for fun and practice I want to make a very basic version of that program run. For now, all the data is randomly generated and no user input is needed. Here is what the Person class looks like

from random import randint
from decimal import Decimal

def randomDecimal(a,b):
    return (randint(int(a), int(100.0 * b)))/100.0

class Person:

    def __init__(self, name):
        self.name=name
        self.sun = (randomDecimal(1, 12), randomDecimal(0, 30)) 
        self.moon = (randomDecimal(1, 12), randomDecimal(0, 30)) 
        self.mercury = (randomDecimal(1, 12), randomDecimal(0, 30))
        self.venus = (randomDecimal(1, 12), randomDecimal(0, 30))
        self.mars = (randomDecimal(1, 12), randomDecimal(0, 30))

    def printer(self):
        print "your Sun is in %f, at %f degrees" % (self.sun[0], self.sun[1])
        print "your Moon is in %f, at %f degrees" % (self.moon[0], self.moon[1])
            #and so on and so forth for the printer

Answer 1

In Python, this line

if abs(self.sun - other.sun) == 2 or 4 or 8 or 10:

actually means

if (abs(self.sun - other.sun) == 2) or 4 or 8 or 10:

Any non-empty value is regarded as True. so this expression will be always True. The proper form

if abs(self.sun - other.sun) in (2, 4, 8, 10):

The same goes fp the second if too

Answer 2

If you are trying to compare two people, the comparison itself isn't also a person.

Python classes have special methods you can overide that allow inbuilt python equalities to work.

For example:

class Person():
    __init__(self, name="Sinead OConnor", etc...):
        # boiler plate goes here
        self.name = name

    __eq__(self, anotherPerson):
        return False # Perople are wonderful and unique and have no equal

    __cmp__(self,anotherPerson):
        return anotherPerson == "You" # Nothing compares too you!

These will then allow you to do things like:

> a = Person(a)
> b = Person(b)
> a == b
False

Obviouusly, how to compare people is difficult and application specific, but once the logic is in it makes sence.

For your work, where you need to compare to people in the abstract "are they a good fit" sence, `cmp won't work as thats just is one thing greater than, less than or equal to another.

In those cases, you can do the following

class Person():
    delta = 100 # How close do 2 things need to be to be a good match
    __init__(self, name="Sinead OConnor", etc...):
        # boiler plate goes here
        self.name = name

    def loveOfPowerBallads(self,myRank):
        if 0<myRank<100:
            raise OutOfRange # Or whatever
        self.rankPowerBallads = myRank

    def isGoodMatch(self,otherPerson):
        return (self.rankPowerBallads - other.rankPowerBallads) ^ 2 < Person.delta

Then:

> ls = Person("legoStormtrooper")
> ls.loveOfPowerBallads(95)
> lp = Person("Lame Person")
> ls.loveOfPowerBallads(30)
> ls.isGoodMatch(lp)
False

Edit: Making it more specific for you (although the principle is the same):

class Person:

    def __init__(self, name):
        self.name=name
        self.sun = (randomDecimal(1, 12), randomDecimal(0, 30)) 
        self.moon = (randomDecimal(1, 12), randomDecimal(0, 30)) 
        # etc...

    def compare(self,other):
        overall = 0
        if abs(self.sun - other.sun) in [2,4,8,10]:
            overall += 4
        elif abs(self.sun - other.sun) in [3,9]: 
            overall -= 6
        elif abs(self.sun - other.sun) == 6:
            overall += 3
        else:
            overall += 0
        return overall