Naming objects in python

[Deep fried ice-cream]

How do I make my python script create objects automatically? (e.g. After the contents of a variable).

I don’t actually have a source code as my project needs one of these to get started but I put in a simple example in case I’m not being very clear.
Any help would be appreciated.

class test:
    def __init__(self,x):
        self.x = x

for i in range (1,11):
    name = chr(96 + i)
    name = test(i)

[v0id]

I'm not very clear on what you want. Do you want to automatically create objects, using a loop? If so, then the code your provided can't be used. You're creating a new object for the same variable, name, all the time. To easily create multiple objects with a loop, you'll need to save the old objects in some way. This could be done using a list.

class Object:
    def __init__(self, value):
        self.value = value
    def get(self):
        return self.value

listOfObjects = []

for value in range(0, 10):
    listOfObjects += [Object(value)]

for index in range(0, len(listOfObjects)):
    print listOfObjects[index].get()

I've defined a function, get, so you can see that there really is multiple objects, with different values. If you want a nicer representation, than using get, you can overload either __repr__ or __str__.

# ...

    def __str__(self):
        return str(self.value)

# ...

for index in range(0, len(listOfObjects)):
    print listOfObjects[index]

[Deep fried ice-cream]

Thanks so much for that!

[Sharke]

I may have misunderstood here, but wasn't what he wanted the ability to name objects after programmatically generated strings?

So instead of saying a = test(i), he wanted to generate a string, and then name the object after that string? So if name = "Bob", he needs to know how to create an object using name as the variable name, so that Bob = test(i).

I don't know how to do that. And I guess I can't work out why you'd want to do that anyway, if that what you DID mean! If you didn't, then I guess the first reply pretty much covers it!

Actually if something like that is what you wanted to do, I suppose you could implement a dictionary with your strings as keys and objects as values, as in..

class test:
        def __init__(self,x):
        self.x = x

d = {}
for i in range (1,11):
    name = chr(96 + i)

d[name] = test(i)

[v0id]

I don't think he wanted to have objects called "after the contents of a variable", but I think he just wanted to use the variable for passing it to the constructor. But I could be wrong too. Anyways, it seems like (after looking at his reply) what I made for him was fine.