Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > 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. > > For a start, how about: > > class Person: > ... your class ... > > persons = [] > > man = Person() > persons.add(man) > > woman = Person() > persons.add(woman) > > for p in persons: > print p, p.state()
It didn't like using .add for some reason, but once I swapped out all instances of that for .append that worked a treat! Thank you very much, I'll check out your other suggestions later once I feel comfortable with what I have so far. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
