Creating an Instance of a Class with a variable in Python

Question

I\'m trying to create a game for my little sister. It is a Virtual Pet sort of thing and the Pet has toys to play with.

I created a class Toy and want t

Answer 1

If you haven't found it yet, here is Dive into Python's chapter on object-oriented programming.

Here are some more examples, scroll to BankAccount.

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You can call a class directly to create an instance. Parameters are passed to the __init__ method.

class Tamago(object):
    def __init__(self, name):
        self.name = name

imouto = Tamago('imouto')
oba = Tamago('oba')
oba.name # 'oba'
imouto.name # 'imouto'

Answer 2

This is a very strange question to ask, specifically of python, so being more specific will definitely help me answer it. As is, I'll try to take a stab at it.

I'm going to assume what you want to do is create a new instance of a datastructure and give it a variable. For this example I'll use the dictionary data structure and the variable mydictionary.

mydictionary = dict()

This will create a new instance of the dictionary data structure and place it in the variable named mydictionary. Alternatively the dictionary constructor can also take arguments:

mydictionary = dict([('sape', 4139), ('guido', 4127), ('jack', 4098)])

Finally, python will attempt to figure out what data structure I mean from the data I give it. IE

mydictionary = {'jack': 4098, 'sape': 4139}

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