Adrian Wood wrote: > I can call man.state() and then woman.state() or Person.state(man) and > Person.state(woman) to print the status of each. This takes time and > space however, and becomes unmanageable if we start talking about a > large number of objects, and unworkable if there is an unknown number. > What I'm after is a way to call the status of every instance of Man, > without knowing their exact names or number. > > I've gone through the relevant parts of the online docs, tried to find > information elsewhere online, and looked for code samples, but the > ionformation either isn't there, or just isn't clicking with me. I've > tried tracking the names of each object in a list, and even creating > each object within a list, but don't seem to be able to find the right > syntax to make it all work.
You'll have to retain a list of all extant Person objects, and then a function which calls the relevant method on every element of that list and returns the result however you wish. You can easily encapsulate that list into a class attribute of Person, and the function into a static method of the class for elegance, but it's not required to get the proper functionality. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 18 N 121 57 W && AIM, Y!M erikmaxfrancis Life is a gamble so I should / Live life more carefully -- TLC -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
