Python - Dynamic variables [duplicate]

Answer 1

This is how I might construct objects with a random set of attributes, given your definitions:

import random

possible_attributes= ['small', 'black', 'scary', 'smelly', 'happy']

class Person(object):
    def __init__(self):
      self.attributes = random.sample(possible_attributes, random.randint(0, len(possible_attributes)))

This selects a random number of attributes from your list of possible attributes.

>>> print Person().attributes
['small', 'smelly']
>>> print Person().attributes
['scary', 'smelly', 'happy']