Help With Python

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Steven Bethard <steven.bethard at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Nick Vargish wrote:
> > # this is one viking making one order repeated 511 times. if you want
> > # 511 vikings making seperate orders, you'll have to write a loop.
> 
>  No need to write a loop:
> 
>  py> class Viking(object):
>  ...     def order(self):
>  ...         return 'Spam'
>  ...
>  py> v = Viking()
>  py> orders = [v.order()] * 7
>  py> ', '.join(orders)
>  'Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam'
>  py> orders = [Viking().order()] * 7
>  py> ', '.join(orders)
>  'Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam'

Thats still one Viking making 7 orders surely?

Eg

>>> vikings = [Viking()] * 7
>>> vikings[0] is vikings[1]
True

whereas

>>> vikings = [Viking() for _ in range(7)]
>>> vikings[0] is vikings[1]
False

So you want this...

>>> orders = [ Viking().order() for _ in range(7) ]

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