Re: using exec() to instantiate a new object.

2008-11-10 Thread RyanN
On Nov 10, 7:47 am, RyanN wrote: > Thank you both, I knew there had to be a good way of doing this. > > -Ryan Just an update. I used dictionaries to hold objects and their names. I'm beginning to understand better. Now to apply this to my actual problem. Here's the code I ended up with: class con

Re: using exec() to instantiate a new object.

2008-11-10 Thread George Sakkis
On Nov 10, 10:37 am, RyanN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 10, 7:47 am, RyanN wrote: > > > Thank you both, I knew there had to be a good way of doing this. > > > -Ryan > > Just an update. I used dictionaries to hold objects and their names. > I'm beginning to understand better. Now to apply th

Re: using exec() to instantiate a new object.

2008-11-10 Thread RyanN
Thank you both, I knew there had to be a good way of doing this. -Ryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: using exec() to instantiate a new object.

2008-11-07 Thread Aaron Brady
On Nov 7, 4:23 pm, RyanN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to teach myself OOP to do a data project involving > hierarchical data structures. > > I've come up with an analogy for testing involving objects for > continents, countries, and states where each object contains some > att

Re: using exec() to instantiate a new object.

2008-11-07 Thread Patrick Mullen
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:23 PM, RyanN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > to do this I tried: > >def addCountry(self,country_name): ># create an instance of country >exec(country_name + "= country('" + country_name + "')") ># Add this new instance of a country to a list >

using exec() to instantiate a new object.

2008-11-07 Thread RyanN
Hello, I'm trying to teach myself OOP to do a data project involving hierarchical data structures. I've come up with an analogy for testing involving objects for continents, countries, and states where each object contains some attributes one of which is a list of objects. E.g. a country will con