On Mar 31, 8:49 am, "Frank Millman" <fr...@chagford.com> wrote:
Hi all
Thanks to all for the helpful replies.
Rob, you are correct, I had not realised I was adding attributes to the
class instead of the instance. Your alternative does work correctly. Thanks.
Carl, I understand your concern about modifying attributes. In my particular
case, this is not a problem, as the class is under my control, and an
instance will not be modified once it is set up, but I agree one must be
careful not to mis-use it.
My use-case is that I want to create a number of objects, I want to store
them in a tuple/list so that I can retrieve them sequentially, and I also
want to retrieve them individually by name. Normally I would create a tuple
and a dictionary to serve the two purposes, but I thought this might be a
convenient way to get both behaviours from the same structure.
Regarding adding elements after instantiation, I would subclass 'list', as
suggested by others, and then add an 'add' method, like this -
def add(self, name, value):
setattr(self, name, value)
self.append(value)
I tested this and it behaves as I want.
Having said all of this, I have realised that what I probably want is an
ordered dict. I will play with the one in PyPi, hopefully it will render
this entire discussion redundant. It was interesting, though, and I have
learned a lot.
Thanks again
Frank
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