Brian wrote:
> [...]
> For example, lets say that I have a class that creates a student
> object.
>
> Class Student:
> def setName(self, name)
> self.name = name
> def setId(self, id)
> self.id = id
>
> Then I instantiate that object in a method:
>
> def createStudent():
> foo = Student()
> /add stuff
>
> Now, suppose that I want to create another Student. Do I need to name
> that Student something other than foo? What happens to the original
> object? If I do not supplant the original data of Student (maybe no id
> for this student) does it retain the data of the previous Student
> object that was not altered? I guess I am asking how do I
> differentiate between objects when I do not know how many I need to
> create and do not want to hard code names like Student1, Student2 etc.
> [...]
Just return your Student object from createStudent() and put it in a
list. For example:
all_students = []
for i in range(10):
one_student = createStudent()
# Do what you want with one_student here
all_students.append(one_student)
print all_students
BTW: Why don't you use a constructor to create Student objects?
Bye,
Dennis
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