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Create class instances from list of strings - pythonck - Sep-18-2017
I have a list of strings as follows: somewords = ['apple', 'orange', 'pear']
I want to be able to have attributes for these words.
So I create a class as follows:
class Word():
...def __init__(self):
......self.size = ""
......self.color = ""
......self.fresh = bool
......self.age = int
and I would like to create instances of the class Word from my list like this:
apple = Word()
apple.size = 'big'
apple.color = 'red'
apple.fresh = True
apple.ageindays = 3
orange = Word()
orange.size = 'small'
orange.color = 'yellow'
orange.fresh = False
orange.ageindays = 10
If I could convert the strings in the list to variables I could simply iterate across the list to create the instances of the Word class. But I don't think this can be done or is there some other way to create instances of class from a list of strings?
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RE: Create class instances from list of strings - ichabod801 - Sep-18-2017
I would put them in a dictionary:
words = {word': Word() for word in somewords}Getting the attributes in is another question, but you could probably make them parameters to __init__, and then load them in while creating the dict.