> Are they class attributes - shared by all instances of the class or are > they instance attributes - unique values in each instance? all instances of the class share these attributes.
> So you have a list of all the instances of the class and modifying values. > Since you do it on a per instance basis I assume that means the attributres > are instance attributes(ie created inside an init method)? yes they are created with an __init__ method > > > assigning values to the attributes depending on another variable > > that will change and be the same names like the class attribute names. > > So the names are names of attributes not names of classes? > In that case I think you need to use setattr() Yes, they are names of the attributes, and yes I am using setattr and getattr now. thanks you all for your great advice.... -- Eric Walker EDA/CAD Engineer Work: 208-368-2573 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
