cptn.spoon wrote:
On Feb 9, 3:58 pm, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
"cptn.spoon" <cptn.sp...@gmail.com> writes:
I'm not asking for tips on the program itself, I just can't figure out
how to get the data structures in place. Would I use Classes or would
I use dictionaries? Am I completely off the mark with this?
Typically you would use a class for the multi-fielded data structure;
a dictionary is intended more for lookup tables where you don't know
ahead of time what the keys will be. Also, you'd typically use a list
[1,2,3] rather than a tuple (1,2,3) to hold the price list.
Thanks Paul! I thought this might be the case. So how would I get the
StockMarket class instance to contain many Stock class instances and
then be able to iterate through them? I'm guessing the basic structure
would be as follows...but I think I'm wrong:
class StockMarket:
pass
I would start with using a list for StockMarket.
class Stock:
def __init__(self, stockname, stockpricelist[], stockrisk,
stockqty):
self.stockname = stockname
self.stockpricelist[] = stockpricelist[]
self.stockrisk = stockrisk
self.stockqty = stockqty
I would remove the redundant 'stock' from all the parameter and
attribute names. (And call 'qty' 'quantity'.)
You will iterating like so:
for stock in StockMarket:
print(stock.name, stock.quantity,.... or whatever, and the iteration
variable makes clear that a stock is a Stock.
tjr
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